It’s been a while since I have been doing anything about The Open Source Zone. You know the story: new job, new responsibilities, little time for blogging or side projects. But I finally found some time last weekend to introduce a new feature, one that I wanted to add from the beginning: A news aggregator.
So let me introduce to you OSZone Planet, an aggregation of the best news channels and blogs about Open Source. There’s not much there yet, actually. You just get the most recent items from a predefined set of channels, but I plan to introduce more features, like personalization — you will be able to select the channels you want to read — and an aggregated RSS feed, and more, in the coming days.
Also, it will be possible to submit new channels for inclusion. For the moment, if you know of a news site or blog that should be included, and it has an RSS/Atom feed, please let us know and we will add it.
On the technical side of things, there’s not much to say. I used Rome as the basis for the aggregator and it worked perfectly, at least from version 0.7 beta (version 0.6 had a little too many bugs to be seriously usable). I didn’t have to add much to what is already provided by Rome. Kudos!
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