9:48 PM - TheMusiKid (Chuck Testa Cools): I was thinking of setting up a service that, when you send an email to a certain address, it will parse the email and create an RSS feed or XML feed or whatever
9:48 PM - TheMusiKid (Chuck Testa Cools): Create/update
9:48 PM - TheMusiKid (Chuck Testa Cools): etc.
9:48 PM - Matt: Most things have RSS feeds already, no?
9:49 PM - TheMusiKid (Chuck Testa Cools): Like, I send an email to, for example, [email protected]
9:49 PM - TheMusiKid (Chuck Testa Cools): And it will parse the email for subject, sender, content, etc.
9:49 PM - TheMusiKid (Chuck Testa Cools): And create an RSS feed or some kind of feed that can be read
9:49 PM - Matt: I don't see what you're trying to accomplish
9:49 PM - Matt: what's it making an RSS feed for
9:50 PM - Matt: for the email?
9:50 PM - TheMusiKid (Chuck Testa Cools): To be read by google Reader or another feed reading service
9:50 PM - TheMusiKid (Chuck Testa Cools): yes
9:50 PM - Matt: Yeah but what content goes into the RSS?
9:50 PM - TheMusiKid (Chuck Testa Cools): The content of the email.
9:50 PM - TheMusiKid (Chuck Testa Cools): The sender
9:50 PM - Matt: So I could send an email to that
9:50 PM - Matt: and people subscribed to my RSS
9:50 PM - Matt: would get the contents into an RSS
9:50 PM - TheMusiKid (Chuck Testa Cools): Precisely.
9:51 PM - TheMusiKid (Chuck Testa Cools): Since Google Reader removed the share feature.
9:51 PM - TheMusiKid (Chuck Testa Cools): I am going to set up a workaround.
9:51 PM - TheMusiKid (Chuck Testa Cools): You get me now?
9:51 PM - Matt: Don't see how that's a work around
9:51 PM - TheMusiKid (Chuck Testa Cools): Why?
9:51 PM - TheMusiKid (Chuck Testa Cools): how?
9:51 PM - Matt: Or are you proposing that everyone email the thing they want to share
9:52 PM - Matt: and then you follow someone to see what they shared?
9:52 PM - TheMusiKid (Chuck Testa Cools): Google Reader still has an option to send the item
9:52 PM - TheMusiKid (Chuck Testa Cools): It just removed the feature to "Share" it
9:53 PM - TheMusiKid (Chuck Testa Cools): So now instead of "Share"'ing an item with other people (who are following you on Google Reader), you simply click the "Send" button, type in the email of the parser or whatever you'd call it
9:53 PM - TheMusiKid (Chuck Testa Cools): And it would update "your" feed of items that you've "shared"
9:53 PM - Matt: And then people can just subscribe to that email?
9:53 PM - Matt: I think I get it now
9:53 PM - TheMusiKid (Chuck Testa Cools): Yeah
9:53 PM - TheMusiKid (Chuck Testa Cools): Exactly.
9:54 PM - TheMusiKid (Chuck Testa Cools): Like, you'd create an account or what-the-hell ever and it'd record your name and email.
9:54 PM - TheMusiKid (Chuck Testa Cools): Whenever an item is sent from that email address, it would update the RSS feed associated with that name.
9:54 PM - Matt: Wouldn't that make it so you have to subscribe to all of your friends
9:55 PM - TheMusiKid (Chuck Testa Cools): Even when Google Reader still had the share feature you still had to "Follow" whomever you wanted to receive updates from.
9:55 PM - TheMusiKid (Chuck Testa Cools): So it's basically the same idea.
9:56 PM - TheMusiKid (Chuck Testa Cools): Just not natively supported.
9:56 PM - TheMusiKid (Chuck Testa Cools): In that sense, anyway
9:56 PM - Matt: Ah...
9:56 PM - TheMusiKid (Chuck Testa Cools): Also, when you used to "Share" items in the old Google Reader, it'd create an RSS feed of that, too xD
9:56 PM - TheMusiKid (Chuck Testa Cools): lulz
9:57 PM - TheMusiKid (Chuck Testa Cools): update*
9:57 PM - TheMusiKid (Chuck Testa Cools): It's "created" when the account is made.
9:57 PM - TheMusiKid (Chuck Testa Cools): I have web space
9:57 PM - TheMusiKid (Chuck Testa Cools): A website, etc. (mc-mycraft.com)
9:58 PM - TheMusiKid (Chuck Testa Cools): Just not the proper know-how.
9:58 PM - Matt: Ok
9:58 PM - TheMusiKid (Chuck Testa Cools): Sorry to bug you, by the way
9:58 PM - Matt: Well first you probably need to figure out how to run a web server
9:59 PM - TheMusiKid (Chuck Testa Cools): Well I use BlueHost.
9:59 PM - Matt: You have to find some way to see when you get new emails
9:59 PM - TheMusiKid (Chuck Testa Cools): I'd rather not have to run anything from my home to make this work, but if I must...
10:00 PM - TheMusiKid (Chuck Testa Cools): IMAP or POP3 maybe?
10:00 PM - Matt: Well, you have to find some way to query it
10:00 PM - Matt: You can either find a way to run your own web server
10:01 PM - Matt: Or find a way to make a php/some script run every 15 mintues
10:01 PM - TheMusiKid (Chuck Testa Cools): CRON jobs maybe?
10:01 PM - Matt: If it can run a scheduled task
10:02 PM - TheMusiKid (Chuck Testa Cools): I mean, I'm fairly fluent in PHP scripting
10:02 PM - TheMusiKid (Chuck Testa Cools): But I don't know how to get that to run.
10:02 PM - TheMusiKid (Chuck Testa Cools): Without a user actually going to that page
10:03 PM - TheMusiKid (Chuck Testa Cools): But you understand what I'm trying to get at now, yes?
10:03 PM - Matt: Yeah
10:03 PM - Matt: But you're on your own for web dev :p
10:03 PM - TheMusiKid (Chuck Testa Cools): :>c
10:03 PM - Matt: You'll have to look at your host provider
10:03 PM - TheMusiKid (Chuck Testa Cools): >:c
10:03 PM - Matt: and see what they... provide :p
10:09 PM - TheMusiKid (Chuck Testa Cools): http://i.imgur.com/OWm1z.png
10:09 PM - Matt: Now look up Cron jobs
10:09 PM - Matt: and see how to execute a php file
10:09 PM - TheMusiKid (Chuck Testa Cools): Well
10:09 PM - TheMusiKid (Chuck Testa Cools): Just Linuz commands in general
10:10 PM - TheMusiKid (Chuck Testa Cools): That's what the CRON job does, is execute a Linux command.
10:10 PM - Matt: So can you make a script that runs on linux v:
10:12 PM - TheMusiKid (Chuck Testa Cools): php -q /home/serverpath/script/file.php
10:12 PM - TheMusiKid (Chuck Testa Cools): seems to be what I want
10:12 PM - Matt: Alright now you've got something that can check a script
10:13 PM - Matt: Now you have to find a way to check for new emails in php
10:13 PM - TheMusiKid (Chuck Testa Cools): Probably IMAP