Answering Questions: Part 3

Part 3 of our Q & A series…

Will I be able to click on a category and have all the feeds in that category display on a single page?

FeedLounge has tags instead of categories, but yes - we show items from all feeds in a tag when you click on a tag in the feeds list.

Also, how easy it is going to be to add new feeds? (bookmarklet)

We’ve already got a couple of bookmarklets and Greasemonkey scripts available - including a subscribe bookmarklet.

Am also wondering if any mobile edition/browsing is planned at some point?

Yes, that is something we’d like to add - can’t promise when though.

Do you guys have a strong backend to deal with scalability?

We’re working very hard on this one - performance is important.

How will you market it? Subscription to a centralized website, or will it be available to install and run on private servers?

FeedLounge is a service you can subscribe to.

How well does it comply to syndication standards?

We handle both valid an invalid feeds quite well, thanks to our usage of the Ultra Liberal Feed Parser.

Need a hand with translation?

Not just yet, but we will once we get closer to moving the service out of beta.

Posted December 27th, 2005 @ 9:07 PM in General by Alex

3 Replies to “Answering Questions: Part 3”

  1. (a different) Scott adds this Comment:

    Are there any plans for an API that external applications or websites can access? For instance, the ability to allow a desktop based feed reader use the API in order to download and sync subscription information.

    Scott

    December 27th, 2005 at 11:27 pm
  2. Scott adds this Comment:

    Scott,

    Many external APIs will be “published”. We wish to build a happy and healthy developer/plugin community, and interaction with other applications is high on that API list.

    We already supply basic functionality, such as subscribing to feeds, and exporting your feed subscriptions, and will build on that foundation as the code progresses.

    Are you looking for something specific? Next on our list is a ‘notifier’ API, and then some atention related data output.

    December 28th, 2005 at 1:04 am
  3. (a different) Scott adds this Comment:

    Scott,

    Thanks for the information!

    Not really looking for something specific at the moment. Just was really wondering from a developer standpoint. Both as a developer of web based applications and desktop based ones.

    I do have a few ideas, although I do not have any familiarity using FeedLoung yet, so was just querying in order to be slightly ahead of the power curve.

    Really looking forward to the product as it seems that you guys are doing a wonderful job, as based on the information I have read.

    Thanks!

    December 28th, 2005 at 4:41 pm

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