Get RSS updates to your Instant Messenger
Submitted by achillean on Sun, 06/01/2008 - 08:41.
As a technology and politics addict, I like staying informed about the latest news. Eventually, I got tired of refreshing pages to find out when new content was available (or having to check my RSS reader) so I decided to write a small service that delivers RSS/ Atom updates to my instant messenger. And since I'm sure I'm not the only person craving such a thing, I figure I'd make it publicly available:
It's a straight-forward service that lets you manage your RSS/ Atom subscriptions either via IM or the website and it supports all major IM networks (AIM, MSN, Yahoo and Google Talk). From a technical perspective, the project backend was developed using mostly Python, some C, while the frontend was written w/ Pylons (based on Tesla but w/ AuthKit, extended web helpers and some other custom additions). PostgreSQL was used throughout as the database of choice.
Feel free to check out the website and let me know what you think!
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