RSS
A Chat with the Creator of Feedmarker
by Steven Cohen, Contributing Editor
I've been playing with a new web-based aggregator called Feedmarker. Feedmarker is a combination aggregator/tagging system. Not only can users read RSS Feeds, but they can also tag feeds according to their own classification systems (it's a hot topic these days - see del.ico.us and Flickr for more on open tagging systems). I recently had the opportunity to interview Bruno Bornsztein via e-mail about his unique product.
SC: Can you provide me with a quick bio?
BB: I'm 22. I live in Saint Paul, Minnesota. I majored in Journalism and studied at the University of Minnesota and the University of California -- Berkeley. I really don't know the first thing about programming, but I'm learning. I'm enjoying developing Feedmarker, because it's nice to be able to make the program do whatever you want. You want a feature, you figure out how to build it, it's done.
SC: Why did you start Feedmarker?
BB: Basically, because I couldn't think of a good reason not to. I had been thinking about some features that were missing from popular (NewsGator, Bloglines) aggregators I used for a while. I wanted to be able to tag feeds (instead of just putting them in a folder), because I kept finding that my feeds really belonged in more than one folder. I also wanted to be able to store bookmarks, and easily bookmark items that I found in my feed reading.
Then one day I thought of the name, so I figured, why not just try to do it myself. Kind of silly, but true. As far as I know, there is nothing else out there exactly like it, so that was reason enough to do it.
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