wateronmars

This project intends to provide a free (as in freedom) alternative to web news readers and bookmarking apps.

It is built around the following analogies:

1. You contemplate the river of news flowing down from your selection of sources.
2. You can then use a sieve to filter out and collect the most interesting links.

A demo is at http://wateronmars-demo.herokuapp.com

For the curious developers the aim is also to provide the base mechanics for news and bookmarks manipulations. For instance, there is now a "good enough" database scheme, a RESTful API and a "not too ridiculous" UX.

Everything is set up to start experimenting new features around the admitedly old-fashioned theme of news feeds and bookmarks !

Features

Read news from web feeds
List your collection of bookmarks
Bookmarklets let you add bookmarks and feeds
A tablet-friendly view lets you swipe among the news
A mailbox-view (plus keyboard shortcut) lets you browse the news efficiently
Import bookmarks from Netscape-style bookmark list files (as exported by delicious.com)
Import subscriptions from OPML files (as exported by most feed readers)

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License

Affero GNU Public License

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Additional Project Details

Intended Audience

Advanced End Users

User Interface

Web-based

Programming Language

JavaScript, Python

Database Environment

SQL-based

Related Categories

Python RSS Feed Readers, JavaScript RSS Feed Readers

Registered

2014-11-10

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