RSS Too Hard? Try a Planet
March 13th, 2008 (8:00am) Mike Gunderloy 4 CommentsTweet This
RSS (and other feed technologies like Atom) have always been somewhat of a niche technology, though that niche is widening lately. Still, as most web workers know, trying to explain RSS to newcomers can be daunting. “Planets” – web sites that update by pulling in content from other sites, using feeds under the covers – can be a much gentler introduction. Now Planetaki is making it easy to anyone to create a planet.
With Planetaki, you create your account and your planet at the same time. Adding sites to the planet is as simple as typing in URLs – Planetaki does the work behind the scenes to locate feeds, pull them in, and arrange them on the page. Here’s an example of the results, which took just minutes to put together. If you own a planet, you can also email items from that planet at the click of a button.
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Looks like your readership has brought down PlanetAKI (404)… congrats on creating your very own version of the ‘SlashDot effect’
is a very nice aplication and easy usability… and is really, the service broke one moment, but in this time work excelent!
Many thanks for the positive review! We’ve been working hard on it the last few months and its really great to see people pick up on Javier’s ideas for the project!
Regarding the 404, you caught me during a 5 minute database server relocation! Sorry! Next time I’ll be sure to put up a notice. Cheers, sam.
I don’t get it. It’s another feed reader and I can’t see anything special about it.