Posted on Friday 8 December 2006 - Popularity: unranked
jMe made it to the digg, del.icio.us and Ajax Magazine homepage! Surprisingly my $5 web hosting account wasn’t dugg down for the most part. It’s stilll on the frontpage, so I better knock on wood now. Before I get to many emails, let’s answer some of the questions I’ve got:
Will I be able to add my own feeds in a future version?
This is still a beta version with some missing features. One of the upcoming features will be an user account where you can save item collections, but you will not be able to add your own private feeds. However, there will be an extended version hosted at feedbloggers.com where you can add your own feeds, so stay tuned for future announcements.
Is this going to be something like Netvibes?
No. This is a feed aggregator and not a startpage and I really have no plans to add anything to it that has nothing todo with RSS or Atom feeds.
Some love your design, but I have a different taste, will there be different styles to chose from?
Yes, different styles to chose from will come with the user accounts.
I would love to have this for my own website, will this be available as open source?
Yes, this will be opensourced someday, just don’t expect that to happen in the following weeks, the current version just isn’t ready for that (no admin panel or install script).
How did you do it?
Well, this was my “learn jQuery” project, so obviously I’m using jQuery for the whole frontend scripting. On the backend I’m using php and mySQL. jQuery is really cool and easy to learn. Thx to it this project only took me three weeks from the first sketches to the frontpage of digg without any previous knowledge of jQuery.
Fredi
