Extras

Features that don't yet deserve their own pages.

Bookmarks in FeedLand

This feature goes back a long way, to the beginnings of Frontier and Menu Sharing and through Drummer, whose Bookmarks menu is imho a truly revolutionary thing. Here's a screen shot of my current Bookmarks menu in Drummer. You can see I use it a lot. I expect your bookmarks menu will look something like that before too long.

There are two ways to create a bookmark.

When you're looking at a news item in a river timeline, there's a new icon at the bottom, that looks like a bookmark. Click it. A dialog confirms that you want to add the bookmark. Then the Bookmarks editor window opens with the new bookmark added at the top. You can edit the text, and use the outliner reorganizing commands to move it where you want. When you're finished, click OK and the menu outline is saved on the server, and the menu is automatically rebuilt with the new bookmark where you put it.

If you're at a page in FeedLand that you want to get back to easily, say an interesting person's feed list, choose Add Bookmark at the top of the Bookmarks menu. A dialog confirms you want to add this page to the menu. And the process of editing and placing the bookmark works exactly as it does for when creating a bookmark from a timeline.

The outliner is the same one as in Drummer. For an idea of how to use it see the Outliner howto document.

Feeds of Likes

Each user can have a feed of all the items they liked in FeedLand.

You must be logged in to be able to Like something.

Click the thumb icon to like an item.

When you like something it is added to your feed of likes, which you can then subscribe to in FeedLand or any other app that can read an RSS 2.0 feed.

You have to like something before you actually have the feed. FeedLand won't create it until you like something.

Here's the address for my feed of likes: http://data.feedland.org/likes/davewiner.xml.

And here's the Feed Info page for that feed.

Like icons appear in news pages. To see one of these pages, choose My news from the first menu.

Here's my news page. If you're logged in you can like items on that page.