Interesting service.

At its core it's TwitterFeed, but it tries to be more general, with the concept of "routes" and the beginnings of a powerful configuration system.

I find it interesting because I was working on such an idea a few years back with Betaworks for a product called Switch-A-Bit, that was much more ambitious. However, we couldn't get something that was comprehensible. I came away from it thinking that ultimately what you want here is a programming language, and all attempts to find a balance betw an interactive interface would eventually lead back to programming.

BTW, bit.ly got its name from Switch-A-Bit.

Also interesting to note that bit.ly and TwitterFeed just merged. Good idea. Feeds and URL-shorteners belong together.

All these services need to support rssCloud, imho. I know they've nuzzled up to Google by supporting PubSubHubBub, but please support RSS too. I'm sure you will.

Sooner the better.

Also, if the developers of dlvr.it are around, I'd be interested in knowing where you're taking it.

 8/12/2011; 6:44:06 PM.   .

I have three RSS feeds that I update as often as I update Twitter that are suitable for flowing through your web app.

http://static.reallysimple.org/worldoutline/dave/rss.xml

http://static.reallysimple.org/users/dave/linkblog.xml

http://bits.codecasting.org/rss.xml

They support rssCloud so the updates are available instantaneously.

I'm not asking you to support "standards" -- I think that's a shortcut we don't need to take. The incentive is that I'm putting out a fair amount of good stuff, imho, and I'm making tools that others will be able to use, so there's a cow path to be paved here that leads somewhere good. Plus if you support it, you almost certainly get me on board as an evangelist.

I thought I should make my proposition explicit.

And of course the prop is open to Twitter as well. I've made it before, but the door remains open.

 8/12/2011; 11:40:00 AM.   .

For three Saturdays in August the city closes Park Avenue and connecting streets from the Brooklyn Bridge to Central Park and opens them to bikers, walkers and runners. Here's the map.

http://nyc.gov/summerstreets/

I did it two times last August and it was great! Gives you an idea of what the city might be like if we created places to ride without having to deal with cars.

Tomorrow is one of those Saturdays. And the weather is forecast to be spectacularly nice. Not too hot, and clear. I'll be out on my bike. I'll be the nerd in the silver helmet. If you see me, say hello!

Today's ride: 1 hour 7 minutes, 11.5 miles.

 8/12/2011; 9:36:55 AM.   .