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Getting those lists onto a website
A while back I wrote about Remember the Milk and Ta-da lists and lamented the fact that there wasn't an easy way to get the content onto a website. Of course, because they don't offer it, it doesn't mean that it can't be done.
Stowe Boyd points out that you both products produce RSS feeds. Those feeds can be run through a service, like FeedDigest. The result? A bit of javascript that you can place onto your website. Why is that nice? It means you can track a list and use the functionality of the services (easy to add items, sharing and -- in the case of Remember the Milk -- an ability to add a due date and other levels of information to the item and the list) but have that list appear on a website. An easy way to show what you are working on in your organization. It seems like this could be especially nice when working on a project with volunteers.
Sure, it would be nice if all the feature was in one application. But this shows how you can stitch together a couple of services to end up with something that meets a working needs and can be shared in a variety of ways.
- Marnie Webb's blog
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Model the model
Maybe you could show us an example on your blog :-)
Great idea.
'm thinking that we can make our team to-do list available via this mechanism. It'll make it easy to keep folks informed.
Marnie Webb
Net2 team
FeedDigest
The possibilities are endless with FeedDigest. I use that service all the time. For example, that's how I set up the BlogAlert box system profiled in the case studies section here: http://netsquared.org/blog-alert-box I also used it to splice together RSS feeds with the same tag from multiple sources, offer one RSS feed in total, and provide code to turn that feed into HTML for the WebJustice2.0 attention stream: http://marshallk.com/inequities-in-web-20-lets-tag-about-it
I LOVE FeedDigest. Alternatives include http://feedjumbler.com and a couple of others, but I prefer FeedDigest. Their uptime isn't 100% though, so sometimes I do use other services.