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Wow!!!!

I just stumbled upon Dapper.

Incredible. Just incredible. I’m too gobsmacked to explain it properly - let me just show you what I did in 10 minutes:

this link is an RSS feed of all the blogs listed on the front page of exc-el on the right hand side. Whenever David Gilmour adds another blog to the list, the RSS feed will dynamically pick it up. Let me be clear here. Exc-el does not automatically produce an RSS feed of all its blogs. Dapper is looking at the page and doing some smart analysis to grab all the links in the section containing the blogs. It then automatically packages up that information as an RSS feed.

Want more?

this link is the URL for a netvibes module of the same information.

If I wanted to I could have also grabbed the blogs on the top left too - just didn’t have time.

Sweet…very sweet. I feel a bit dizzy with the potential of it. I remember feeling like this before, quite recently, but I can’t quite remember what it was about. Ruby on Rails maybe?
My next project is to produce an RSS feed from the scotedublogs wiki - unless someone else fancies doing it as a wee warm-up exercise?

Stumble it!

A “Northern Lights” alert service

This service will text my mobile phone if there’s likely to be a show where I live. Here in East Lothian I’ve seen them once, but I’m pretty sure that I’ve missed them several other times.

Northern lights by Nick Russill

Intelligent blog searching

I want a blog search tool that delivers me RSS feeds of my searches, but learns from what I tell it about the sites it finds. Simple “more like this” or “not what I’m looking for” buttons beside the results that will fine tune future searches, along with a “near misses” button to show me some results that it thinks probably aren’t what I’m looking for, so that I can highlight any that actually are relevant. This tool would solve Ian’s Islay problem

Of course I don’t want to pay for these services, and I want a big fat cheque from anyone that provides these services because they were my idea

Anyone else got any “must have” services?

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Stumble it!

Everyone else is getting excited about Quintura, so I’d better follow the herd and post a link to the Qunitura search for “exc-el”

http://www.quintura.com/?request=%27exc-el%27&searchvia=0&engineoverride=0&page=1&savelink

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Just testing my google maps api key - exciting uses coming soon!

Not having any luck embedding a map inside my blog - but I’ve got it working here, on a map showing the timings of the school ski trip to Courmayeur in January.

Stumble it!