Tiny Tiny RSS - Another online Ajax RSS feed reader - GPL

Similar in some ways to Orangoo.com (see our recent review of Orangoo here), Tiny Tiny RSS is a sweet and simple RSS reader. Add keyboard-based navigation of the feeds and this is a very solid project. GPL licensed, too, so that’s pretty great. You can download the source and run it on your own server.

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Rationale

For years I’ve been searching for a perfect RSS aggregator. I tried desktop ones (Straw, Blam!, Liferea) - while nice programs they usually lacked something or were overencumbered with features. Also, desktop aggregators can’t solve the problem of keeping read feeds in sync between different machines.

I tried server-side aggregators, several ones. Unfortunately, I didn’t find anything that felt usable, they had all the problems of classical web applications - clunky interface, no realtime updates, just not designed the way I like it, etc.

Well, then the obvious solution was to write an aggregator myself. I also felt the need to exercise in simple XmlHttpRequest web application programming, so TT-RSS was born. While obviously being on early stages on development and pretty much unfinished it offers a lot of functionality of desktop application while staying on server-side with all the benefits it provides.

Description

Server-side RSS feed aggregator written in PHP and heavily based on XmlHttpRequest and related technologies for user interface and operation.

License

GPL.

Requirements

* Magpie RSS feed parser;
* PostgreSQL or MySQL (InnoDB and version 4.1 required);

Notice the distinct lack of using the term Ajax. No Ajax for this guy–he’s hardcore XMLHttpRequest all the way, baby! He has written a lot of neat stuff there. Go check it out!

Visit his site: http://bah.spb.su/~fox/tt-rss/

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