LiveJournal as RSS/Syndication Aggregator
I've been talking about it forever, but I finally added support to LiveJournal for adding RSS feeds as friends.

For example:

http://www.livejournal.com/users/slashdot/
http://www.livejournal.com/users/sweetcode/
http://www.livejournal.com/users/gomono/
http://www.livejournal.com/users/dotkde/

That's 4 websites I don't have to check anymore... I can just add them to my friends list.

Two caveats:

1) This is a paid user tool.

2) I only did the back-end. avva will be working on the UI to let you create new LJ RSS accounts from RSS URLs. Right now, the 4 examples above I did by hand in the database.

I'm sure there's room for improvement, but it's pretty good so far.

Reply here with some popular sites' RSS feeds and I'll create accounts for them manually for people to enjoy before Avva's done with the front-end.

Update: I'm working with the DeadJournal guy, getting them running the latest code. Once that happens, you'll be able to add DeadJournal friends to your LiveJournal friends list through this mechanism (since LJ exports RSS also) ... kinda hacky, but it'll work.

New Accounts:
http://www.livejournal.com/users/kuro5hin/
http://www.livejournal.com/users/linuxtoday/
http://www.livejournal.com/users/cert/
http://www.livejournal.com/users/memepool/
http://www.livejournal.com/users/plasticdotcom/
http://www.livejournal.com/users/jerkcity/
http://www.livejournal.com/users/theregister/

Final Update: I'm done for the day, and I probably won't catch back up with the threads here tomorrow, so any new accounts will have to wait until the front-end is done.

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	erratic0101 2002-07-08 04:31 pm UTC (link)
	HOOOLLY CRAP. You just keep coming up with things that justify my paying. Now just finish the portal site ;-) (Reply to this)

	koliver 2002-07-08 04:32 pm UTC (link)
	Sweet. How about the other direction? By this, I mean, other people could read our journals as RSS feeds. Just another nice addition. Thanks :) (Reply to this) (Thread)

	bradfitz 2002-07-08 04:33 pm UTC (link)
	http://www.livejournal.com/users/koliver/rss (Reply to this) (Parent)(Thread)(Expand)

(no subject) - gblake, 2002-07-12 08:29 pm UTC (Expand)

(no subject) - gblake, 2002-07-12 08:50 pm UTC (Expand)

	matte 2002-07-08 04:32 pm UTC (link)
	SUH-WEET!!! Thx Brad!!! (Reply to this)

	percible 2002-07-08 04:35 pm UTC (link)
	Kuro5hin, please? RSS is at http://www.kuro5hin.org/backend.rdf (Reply to this) (Thread)

	bradfitz 2002-07-08 04:38 pm UTC (link)
	No prob: kuro5hin (Reply to this) (Parent)(Thread)(Expand)

(no subject) - percible, 2002-07-08 04:39 pm UTC (Expand)

(no subject) - jacqui, 2002-08-14 05:07 pm UTC (Expand)

	velda 2002-07-08 04:38 pm UTC (link)
	Whoo Hoo! Thanks! Now i dont need a separate RSS panel for /.! (Reply to this)

	forloveofrhea 2002-07-08 04:40 pm UTC (link)
	Brad Brad PUH LEASE! Portal of Evil News!!! (Reply to this) (Thread)(Expand)

	bradfitz 2002-07-08 04:42 pm UTC (link)
	It has to have an RDF or RSS channel. If the site doesn't, beg the webmasters. Or maybe they just don't want one... so don't beg too hard. (Reply to this) (Parent)(Thread)(Expand)

Re: - forloveofrhea, 2002-07-08 04:44 pm UTC (Expand)

(no subject) - solcita, 2002-07-08 05:16 pm UTC (Expand)

	sprorion 2002-07-08 04:43 pm UTC (link)
	Aw man, this is very good. Thanks for developing this, and giving me more reason to keep being a paid account (Reply to this)

	Serve me up DJ jproulx 2002-07-08 04:44 pm UTC (link)
	http://www.plastic.com/plastic.rdf (Reply to this)

	jgrafton 2002-07-08 04:46 pm UTC (link)
	How about Linux Today and The Register (http://www.theregister.co.uk/tonys/slashdot.rdf)? I believe that Linux Today has a feed somewhere... I just don't know where it is. (Reply to this) (Thread)(Expand)

	jgrafton 2002-07-08 04:53 pm UTC (link)
	Found Linux Today. http://linuxtoday.com/backend/my-netscape.rdf, please. (Reply to this) (Parent)(Thread)(Expand)

(no subject) - bradfitz, 2002-07-08 05:12 pm UTC (Expand)

(no subject) - david, 2002-07-08 05:00 pm UTC (Expand)

(no subject) - bradfitz, 2002-07-08 05:14 pm UTC (Expand)

	quasidan 2002-07-08 04:46 pm UTC (link)
	http://www.fark.com ? (Reply to this) (Thread)(Expand)

	jerronimo 2002-07-08 05:45 pm UTC (link)
	I've found that it's easier to suck out the fark headlines by going to this url: http://www.fark.com/Avantgo.shtml :] (Reply to this) (Parent)

fark.com - signde, 2002-07-09 01:07 am UTC (Expand)

	niko 2002-07-08 04:50 pm UTC (link)
	I would greatly appreciate JerkCity: http://www.jerkcity.com/jerkcity.rss (Reply to this) (Thread)

	bradfitz 2002-07-08 05:10 pm UTC (link)
	jerkcity (Reply to this) (Parent)(Thread)(Expand)

(no subject) - niko, 2002-07-08 05:17 pm UTC (Expand)

	harvey 2002-07-08 04:50 pm UTC (link)
	Oh my god this is the coolest thing ever. (Reply to this)

	cutekelliekitte 2002-07-08 04:51 pm UTC (link)
	I'm new to reading this community, and I'm about to sound like the community's idiot but.... Will someone explain to me what this is? (Reply to this) (Thread)

	jproulx 2002-07-08 05:01 pm UTC (link)
	This is simply a shared journal that outlines the news worthy events of LiveJournal.com We (LiveJournal staff) update the journal whenever there is something we feel all users should know about. (Reply to this) (Parent)(Thread)(Expand)

(no subject) - cutekelliekitte, 2002-07-08 05:04 pm UTC (Expand)

(no subject) - jproulx, 2002-07-08 05:15 pm UTC (Expand)

(no subject) - cutekelliekitte, 2002-07-08 05:24 pm UTC (Expand)

icraveattn 2002-07-08 04:52 pm UTC (link)

out of curiousity, would this limit the user names lists? meaning, does that mean that people will no longer be able to use the name slashdot and whatever else? only reason i ask is b/c, while it might not be a problem now, what about in the future? i'm hoping that i won't have to see people with a whole lotta numbers attached to the end of their names... but this is a cool feature, though :) (Reply to this) (Thread)

	alister 2002-07-08 04:56 pm UTC (link)
	It might be useful to reserve 'rss.{name}' for feeds in the same way that 'lj_{name}'s are now. (Reply to this) (Parent)(Thread)(Expand)

(no subject) - bradfitz, 2002-07-08 05:04 pm UTC (Expand)

(no subject) - alister, 2002-07-08 05:28 pm UTC (Expand)

	harvey 2002-07-08 04:54 pm UTC (link)
	Memepool: http://memepool.com/memepool.rss (Reply to this) (Thread)

	bradfitz 2002-07-08 05:08 pm UTC (link)
	memepool (Reply to this) (Parent)(Thread)(Expand)

(no subject) - harvey, 2002-07-08 05:12 pm UTC (Expand)

(no subject) - pinkfu, 2002-07-08 05:13 pm UTC (Expand)

(no subject) - scientaestubiqu, 2002-07-12 02:06 am UTC (Expand)

	fjarlq 2002-07-08 04:59 pm UTC (link)
	Very cool! I can't wait to have a CERT security advisory journal. :-) (Reply to this) (Thread)(Expand)

	bradfitz 2002-07-08 05:09 pm UTC (link)
	cert (Reply to this) (Parent)(Thread)(Expand)

(no subject) - fjarlq, 2002-07-08 05:10 pm UTC (Expand)

(no subject) - tweakt, 2002-07-08 06:02 pm UTC (Expand)

	gleepy 2002-07-08 05:04 pm UTC (link)
	Okay, brad, how about NetSlaves? This might make tools like AmphetaDesk obsolete! (Reply to this)

	eurii 2002-07-08 05:04 pm UTC (link)
	will we be able to read DJ friends-only posts (and vis-versa) through this? or is it only for public posts (Reply to this) (Thread)

	bradfitz 2002-07-08 05:09 pm UTC (link)
	Public only. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	ursamajor 2002-07-08 05:05 pm UTC (link)
	holy shmidt brad ... LOVELOVELOVE. :D now, quick question, directly from the source code at http://www.metafilter.com : would that be able to work as an rss feed? what about the xml feed at wilwheaton.net ( http://www.wilwheaton.net/mt/index.xml )? or .xml feeds in general? *can't wait till avva's done!* (Reply to this) (Thread)(Expand)

	ursamajor 2002-07-08 05:07 pm UTC (link)
	dammit, that should've said { link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" title="RSS" href="http://xml.metafilter.com/rss.xml" } rah. (Reply to this) (Parent)(Thread)(Expand)

oh and another thing - ursamajor, 2002-07-08 05:14 pm UTC (Expand)

y'know, maybe i should just save these questions all up for one big post *ggl* - ursamajor, 2002-07-08 05:21 pm UTC (Expand)

oooohhh, METAFILTER, please???? - mamawrites, 2002-07-10 04:14 am UTC (Expand)

	freiheit 2002-07-08 05:11 pm UTC (link)
	Wow. This is very cool. Can we get these: Memepool Use.perl.org (or via older RDF feed) FreshMeat NewsForge Reports NewsForge NewsVac JerkCity (Reply to this)

	supersat 2002-07-08 05:14 pm UTC (link)
	What happened to using s_ prefixes for syndicated journals? Additionally, it'd be nice if LJ was smart enough to map DJ usernames mapped directly to dj_username. It'd be pretty easy to do... just reserve dj_ usernames, and automatically detect DJ RSS feed URLs and force those feeds to use the username dj_username. (Reply to this) (Thread)

	mart 2002-07-09 05:21 am UTC (link)
	That breaks as soon as you get two DJ users whose usernames are 15 characters long, and only differ somewhere in the last three characters! (Reply to this) (Parent)(Thread)(Expand)

(no subject) - suppafly, 2002-07-09 10:40 am UTC (Expand)

	You are the man! ironmaus 2002-07-08 05:18 pm UTC (link)
	What a keen idea. Would it be possible to get a little Blues News? (Reply to this) (Thread)

	You are the man! ironmaus 2002-07-08 05:27 pm UTC (link)
	Or MoreoverGames - http://p.moreover.com/cgi-local/page?c=Videogame%20news&o=rss (Reply to this) (Parent)

	anthologie 2002-07-08 05:19 pm UTC (link)
	How about http://neilgaiman.com/journal/journal.asp ? (Or does that get us into stickly legal territory?) (Reply to this) (Thread)(Expand)

	ursamajor 2002-07-08 05:26 pm UTC (link)
	he doesn't xml- or rss-syndicate his site. i just checked. :( (Reply to this) (Parent)(Thread)(Expand)

(no subject) - deus_x, 2002-07-08 08:21 pm UTC (Expand)

(no subject) - anthologie, 2002-07-08 09:24 pm UTC (Expand)

Ooooo! - tcb, 2002-07-08 10:30 pm UTC (Expand)

	irnbru_man 2002-07-08 05:33 pm UTC (link)
	This is way cool. Is there anyway to get the story summary for slashdot? (Reply to this) (Thread)(Expand)

	fraserspeirs 2002-07-08 05:41 pm UTC (link)
	Yeah, I think it's extremely important that the summaries appear on the LiveJournal page. Check out what I've been doing on fs_news (all of which you've just made more or less obsolete :-) (Reply to this) (Parent)

(no subject) - oboe_sama, 2002-07-08 07:49 pm UTC (Expand)

	haela 2002-07-08 05:39 pm UTC (link)
	Wow, that's incredible! Thanks!! (Reply to this)

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