The Push and the Pull… How are You Reading This?
I’m curious how many folks are browsing to this blog (pull) vs. using a feed reader (push). A show of hands? Either way, how many other blogs are you reading or feeds are you tracking? What do you like about those? What do you dislike?
And the big question, what about adding feed production capabilities to QuickBase? Would you like that ability in addition to the email notification, view subscription, and reminder capabilities? How do you envision using it? Similar to those, or do different things come to mind?
I’ll admit that I’m kind of a feed reading junkie, so I’m curious where others stand… THANKS!
P.S. For those not into feed reading yet. Here are some resources if you want to learn:
- Surf’s Down as More Netizens Turn to RSS for Browsing
An older article, but one that has some good points about some WHY behind feed reading, and some ideas about what’s missing. - Getting Started with RSS: The Fifteen-Minute Tutorial
- RSS Compendium – RSS Readers
13 Trackbacks/Comments
David Kanter on January 12, 2006 at 11:19 pm
I am reading the quickbase blog in bloglines with about 100 other news feeds.
I would LOVE to have quickbase data accessible via RSS. I repeat I would LOVE to have quickbase data accessible via RSS!!!
My team uses quickbase email notification so often, important messages often get lost in the shuffle. I’d really like to turn off email notifications all together, and move to an RSS only option (for my team).
I envision it in 3 ways:
1) any view can be viewed as an rss feed. whenever something changes, the rss feed would show the addition, deletion, or change (much like jotspot or mediawiki publish a change log as an rss feed)
2) allow an option to publish an rss feed wherever you allow email notification in quickbase. Continue to allow for the same options and criteria you would for email, but all another subscribtion medium to be rss in addition to email.
3) Subscribe to a view may be handy to also allow that email subscription to be published via rss
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Dave Sunderhaft on January 12, 2006 at 11:34 pm
I read rss feeds via pluck and would love to see quickbase offer RSS capability. My vision is the same as Dave’s above.
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Raphael on January 13, 2006 at 12:18 am
I read this blog via RSS and would love RSS support in QuickBase!!!!!!!!
Raphael
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Lucien on January 13, 2006 at 1:26 am
I read about 200 feeds, and also would love to have rss support for QuickBase.. it’d be great to have any view be accessible as a rss feed, and the feed would have a description of the entry that changed, and a link to view that entry.
I’d envision the support as a “don’t send me more email, but allow me to pull changes as I want” type of thing.
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Scott Kingery on January 13, 2006 at 2:48 am
I’d never be able to keep up with out RSS. This whay I don’t have to think..hmmm I wonder what’s going on in the Quickbase blog? I just open my reader and there’s you lates post. I read or at least skim abourn 200 feeds.
My reader of choice is GreatNews..it rocks and syncs with Bloglines if you want it to. Available from: http://www.curiostudio.com/
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Jana Eggers on January 13, 2006 at 9:58 am
Oh, one more question… how many folks in your org are reading feeds?
Thanks,
Jana
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Hunter on January 13, 2006 at 11:59 am
I read this blog through Google Reader. I subscribe to about 30-40 feeds and spend at least an hour/night reading them.
As for RSS functionality in Quickbase: While I am sure lot of the developers on these message boards would use it, I think the average user just isn’t interested in RSS yet. Then again it’s always fun to start the trend. 
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Mark Shnier on January 13, 2006 at 12:19 pm
I read this by checking from time to time. Based on the other respnses, it looks like I should figure out what this RSS is all about. No one in our company uses RSS.
Mark
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Dave Rodger on January 16, 2006 at 4:10 pm
Jana– I’m browsing through NewsGator online; it’s nice to keep up with what you guys are all doing.
Best wishes,
-dave
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Kumud Kokal on January 25, 2006 at 2:19 am
Read the blog via Pluck and voice the same opinion as the others – would be neat to have this accessible via RSS. I don’t think a lot of people are reading feeds, but it’s catching on. Most of the feed readers are “techies” but I see the trend catching on with business users as well.
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Jana Eggers on January 27, 2006 at 10:12 am
Scott,
Thanks for the tip on Great News! I’m happy with it.
Thanks,
Jana
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gareth on February 2, 2006 at 1:10 am
Please point your RSS reader at :-
https://www.quickbase.com/up/8emtadvk/g/rzr7/ebj/va/qbcf.rss.xml
(RSS view of QuickBase Community Forum)
It was fairly straightforward to implement using the Ruby wrapper for the QuickBase API (https://www.quickbase.com/db/8emtadvk?act=s&query={’40′.EX.’23744′}OR{’3′.EX.’23744′}&clist=2.6.10.26)
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Larry Lavery on February 13, 2006 at 8:14 am
RSS support for QuickBase would be outstanding. It would complement the concept of subscriptions. Administrators and managers like to keep track of workflow and we do so by being copied on notifications and subscriptions. RSS feeds would greatly simplify this monitoring process and decrease our volume of email. Given Microsoft’s embrace of RSS feeds it makes great sense to offer this feature. Also, please be aware of opportunities to implement these capabilities on “smartphones”. Please provide the RSS capability at the view level and interface with the concepts you have developed for E-mail customization. Thank you.
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