Everything should be an RSS feed
Everyday I use Mozilla Thunderbird to read mails and a variety of RSS feeds. But I find myself hopping over to various web sites for different bits of information. It's finally occurred to me that everything should be an RSS feed.
Here's what I want to be able to aggregate and display in one UI on my computer:
Basically I want one page, that's my entire life.
Call it MyLife.com.
Here's what I want to be able to aggregate and display in one UI on my computer:
- The balance of each of my bank and credit cards accounts updated every 60 minutes
- The weather in various cities world-wide updated hourly
- The Euro/Dollar exchange rate updated daily
- The GPS coordinates of every member of my family updated every five minutes
- The number of voicemails I have waiting for me updated every five minutes
- Recent news items containing my name from Google News updated daily
- All those lovely news headlines I can't live without updated every hour
- The values of a variety of stocks updated every fifteen minutes
- My Google AdSense balance updated every day
- Web site statistics for my web properties updated daily
- All my frequent traveler miles updated daily
Basically I want one page, that's my entire life.
Call it MyLife.com.
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4 Comments:
I've commented on my blog, www.kangaekata.com. I absolutely agree, although I wonder if an RSS implementation would really be better than say a Yahoo Widget implementation. I have considered using SnapXT (in beta) to build this as an Ajax based engine.
Martin Tibbitts
Stocks via RSS can be found here:
http://www.quoterss.com/
AdSense via RSS is here:
http://frenchfragfactory.net/ozh/my-projects/track-adsense-earnings-in-rss-feed/
Sounds like you want plagger.
http://plagger.org/trac
Why not try Opera as your browser? Built-in RSS feeds (in practically all formats), a thoroughly usable e-mail client, and now widgets...all in the same UI.
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