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June 10, 2004

While I'm looking at new tech

There's a pre-alpha version of what is essentially a hit counter for syndication feeds. FeedBurner says pre-alpha means:

…there are still likely to be many many bugs, and while the software isn't unstable at this point, we wouldn't go throwing around the term "high-availability" just yet either. Caveat Emptor.

But it looks interesting. For publishers, they do is take your syndication feed, massage it into any of the existing formats from Atom to RSS, because not all readers are supporting Atom yet. For consumers they tune the feed to match the user agent your aggregator claims to be:

NOTE: We currently maintain a database of over 624 different RSS/Atom feed readers and aggregators that have requested feeds (including such notables as Soup 0.7.1, something called "Mmm....Brains...", and Shmozilla). We are identifying many new readers and plan frequent additions to the list of supported user-agents above. (We use the term "user-agent" because SmartFeed will behave differently depending on which version of some of the listed clients it detects!). We will shortly publish a list of all the agents for which we maintain behavior characteristics and for which SmartFeed behaves appropriately. This list we publish and treat uniquely will always be a small subset of the total list of known readers, for two reasons: a) some readers don't make enough feed requests to warrant investment in reacting to them specifically, and b) some readers shroud their identity in generic user-agents. The Bloomba client, for example, presents itself as Java/1.4.1_05, as do a number of other clients, thus preventing us from treating them in a unique way, even though the current version of Bloomba doesn't support Atom. Similarly, many readers send up a blank user-agent, and this also prevents us from providing them with the most appropriate feed.

Posted by P6 at June 10, 2004 05:41 PM
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I'll try it out (I kinda like trying out new stuff when I have the time), even though Bloglines is still my preferred choice.....

Posted by ej at June 11, 2004 10:37 AM