In order to test the new livemarks (RSS bookmarks) in Firefox, I'll eventually be setting up some test feeds but in the mean time, it would be nice to get some real world feed testing so I'm looking for the most frequently updated feeds available. Does anyone have any suggestions for feeds that update on the order of one or more per minute? If you know of any, please let me know in the comments here.
Posted by asa at July 14, 2004 11:40 AMHow about the main feed and topic feeds at del.icio.us? This one gets updated quite a lot: http://del.icio.us/rss/
Furl.net has some too: http://www.furl.net/members/rss.xml
Posted by: Chris Farmer on July 14, 2004 12:01 PMSee their XML/RSS in the side menu.
Posted by: tekumse on July 14, 2004 12:46 PMYou may want to try FeedParser's unit tests as well.
Posted by: John Beimler on July 14, 2004 01:00 PMHow about LiveJournal (http://www.livejournal.com/stats/latest-rss.bml). Never, mind, that doesn't work.
Posted by: Mike Wills on July 14, 2004 01:04 PMBBC News Front page - http://news.bbc.co.uk, and each section has its own feed as well (Entertainment, UK etc)
Posted by: Doug on July 14, 2004 01:10 PMIt is looking for certain keywords? It doesn't appear to work on any of the feeds i was looking at. blo.gs, weblogs.com, and blogrolling.com.
Posted by: Mike Wills on July 14, 2004 01:12 PMOkay, I got LiveJoural to work, but could it be made easier to designate a link as a livemark?
Posted by: Mike Wills on July 14, 2004 01:18 PMSlashdot??? http://slashdot.org/index.rss
Posted by: Ilija Studen on July 14, 2004 02:29 PMhttp://rss.news.yahoo.com/rss/topstories
Yahoo! seems to update their news quite frequently, since they pull from several wire services.
Posted by: Patrick O'Leary on July 14, 2004 03:02 PMPlanet Sun:
RSS 1.0: http://planetsun.org/rss10.xml
RSS 2.0: http://planetsun.org/rss20.xml
About the most updated feed I know is the wikipedia recent changes feed: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=Special:Recentchanges&feed=atom
Sometimes several updates per second.
Posted by: James Kilfiger on July 14, 2004 05:03 PMI LOVE the new RSS feature in Firefox, it's something I, as a nongeek, could actually use. It's interesting how simple the bookmarks concept is in Firefox, with middleclick + folders instead of tab groups, and now the RSS bookmarks. I think it's very intuitive: why make a new interface object, keep it simple.
Great work :)
This may not be the place to ask, but i just downloaded a nightly and cant see where to set up a livemark
Posted by: George Deka on July 14, 2004 09:45 PMI prefer the RSS reader over this newfangled livemark thing.
Posted by: Eric Hodel on July 15, 2004 12:46 PMyou could set up your own feed at http://pubsub.com/ to include politics, mozilla, jabber (of course) and and a couple other topics. That alone would give you a few stories a minute. If you wanted more stories per minute, you could add topics. It's pretty easy, and only the NSA receives more internet info.
Posted by: carlb on July 16, 2004 04:27 PM