Subscribe to Basecamp RSS Feeds in Google Reader
Yesterday afternoon, we were helping our newest employee, Paige Saez, get setup with new accounts across all of our applications. She uses Google Reader and couldn’t understand why her Basecamp RSS wasn’t working in it. We explained that Google doesn’t provide any way to subscribe to authenticated feeds (yet)... so it wasn’t something she could do. (I still use NetNewsWire because of this problem…)
During the discussion, I said that it probably wouldn’t take much effort to build a proxy for an authenticated feed… and Andy said he’d give it a shot.
10 minutes later… he had an initial version of a RSS proxy application, written in Ruby.
15 minutes after that, we had it up and running on a private server for all of us at PLANET ARGON to begin using.
...and here is the proof!
Wee! Authenticated Basecamp RSS feeds in Google reader. It even works with the openid authentication.
You can grab the code from Andy’s blog post and finally make the switch off of desktop RSS readers to Google Reader, because you know you want to. ;-)
Thanks Andy!
Gmail for your domain
10 comments Latest by Ilya Grigorik Mon, 04 Sep 2006 23:29:30 GMT
Last night I received my invitation for Google’s domain hosting. This gives me a gmail account for a custom domain name along with the integrated Google Calendar and Chat.
On one of my non-work projects, we’re now using this to share our calendars and host email.
Thanks Google!
You can sign up for your invite here.
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