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Sunday, August 04, 2002Great myRadio Feature: Sticky checkboxes in the News Aggregator. If you've set the Radio pref to check the checkboxes by default, when you uncheck an item in myRadio and press the Delete button, the checkbox for that item will remain unchecked forever.
It's the little things...
myRadio: Transforming Radio into something more...
This is a very early release of the myRadio aggregation framework for Radio Userland, another iteration towards Information Nirvana. Check it out This Tool extends the Radio Userland aggregator from rss to any networked data (xml, html, soap, personalized services, etc), and any layout. It is exceedingly simple for developers to add functionality to the framework. The GUI (screenshot) is reminiscent of My Yahoo! and other server based personalization tools. The goal of this project is to very quickly bring all the functionality of server based personalization to the client, then use the client based architecture to develop way beyond!
I've had myRadio on my ToDo list for days, finally installed it tonight. I am floored by it's potential. In short: The myRadio framework recognizes that RSS and News Aggregators aren't always the best way to distribute and present information. Looking at myRadio purely as a replacement News Aggregator, the ability to group RSS feeds makes possible to effectively manage a larger number of feeds...
The comparison to My Yahoo! is very apt, My Yahoo! users will feel right at home. myRadio allows you to set up multiple pages, each customizable with multiple sources. My main myRadio page (screenshot) shows some stock quotes and weather information on the left, Yahoo! Groups and the News Aggregator on the right.
Each of these items is individually configurable. For instance, I have the News Aggregator on the main page configured to show only my uncategorized feeds (RSS feeds that aren't shown on other pages, no relation to Radio's categories). On my other pages (Dot Net, Pocket PCs, etc), I have the News Aggregator configured to show RSS feeds that are related to each other.
Right now, myRadio only has the four previously mentioned sources (Radio's News Aggregator, Yahoo! Groups, weather, stock quotes). Only the News Aggregator is native to myRadio, the rest are plug-ins. Therein lies the beauty of myRadio: any kind of data can be aggregated. And by breaking out of Radio's News Aggregator mold, non-news information (like the weather) can be displayed in an appropriate manner.
It is the Digital Dashboard for Radio. Userland needs to jump on board -- myRadio is a potential bing! for driving corporate deployments of Radio.
