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NewsBlur
- Live at www.newsblur.com.
- A visual feed reader with intelligence.
- Created by Samuel Clay.
- Twitter: @samuelclay and @newsblur.
Features
- Shows the original site (you have to see it to believe it)
- Hides stories you don't want to read based on tags, keywords, authors, etc.
- Highlights stories you want to read, based on the same criteria.
Technologies
Server-side
- Django: Web framework written in Python, used to serve all pages.
- Celery & RabbitMQ: Asynchronous queueing server, used to fetch and parse RSS feeds.
- MongoDB, Pymongo, & Mongoengine: Non-relational database, used to store stories, read stories, feed/page fetch histories, and proxied sites.
- PostgreSQL: Relational database, used to store feeds, subscriptions, and user accounts.
Client-side and design
- jQuery: Cross-browser compliant JavaScript code. IE works without effort.
- Underscore.js: Functional programming for JavaScript. Indispensible.
- Miscellaneous jQuery Plugins: Everything from resizable layouts, to progress bars, sortables, date handling, colors, corners, JSON, animations. See the complete list.
Roadmap
Winter 2011
- River of News
- Starred stories
Summer 2011
- iPhone app
- Implicit sorting in River of News
Fall 2011
- Social features
Author
- Samuel Clay samuel@ofbrooklyn.com
- @samuelclay on Twitter
License
NewsBlur is licensed under the MIT License. (See LICENSE)