[Scott Watermasysk] For a new little project, I needed to create a simple windows service that aggregated a set of feeds. Part two was wiring up this data to a winform app. Along the way, it got me to thinking that this might be an interesting way to create an aggregator. Some service/site runs in the background processing the data. When you need it, fire up your application (Winform/Site/Etc). The other really cool thing is that now all of this great data is just sitting there waiting to be used and reused.

This is what happens when I subscribe to too many RSS feeds - something really interesting and unique comes along, and it slips right underneath my nose (not to mention that Scott uses a link from the furrygoat on his screenshot). Anyways - This is a really cool idea, having a service continuously downloading RSS data for use in whatever application you wanted (provided there was a clean API over the data store). Some thoughts:

I wonder if this project is still alive. There doesn’t seem to be any further posts.