Idea: Syndicated Feed Access Protocol (SFAP)

The idea is to take your common every-day feed readers that pull RSS, ATOM, OPML or whatever else from the internet, and combine their information.  To this, we come up with a feature list:

  • Ability to Synchronize Read status of News Items
  • Ability to Synchronize “Star” (or “Important”) status of News Items
  • Ability to Synchronize Folders for News Items
  • Ability to add/remove/edit a Feed Subscription (including setting an alias for the feed)
  • Ability to Synchronize “Tags”

This would allow us to do with RSS feeds what we do with email when we use IMAP.

Things like Google’s “Share” feature could be simplified as a tag “special:share”.

What do you think?

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  • Navarr Barnier
    Well, positron, it would do it the same way it currently does. If Google was your SFAP provider, you'd use a log in protocol (just like IMAP and POP, etc.)


    Basically, a way to view your feeds like you can your email (but more fine-tuned for feeds)
  • Chris
    Very cool idea :)


    It might be possible to do this with SyncStreaming.com
  • positron
    Yeah! We need that, it would be so convenient!


    So you're suggesting a new web service comprised of servers which would use this protocol and store information about it's users? How would it authenticate users?
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