Introducing Openomy/RSS

RSS has been called the "pipe" of Web 2.0 -- a way to allow different applications to share data with each other easily.

Openomy officially launched this morning. I've been using it for the past few months and its been a really simple and convenient way to get at my files from anywhere. If you've been using it, you may have noticed that despite its very Web 2.0 flavor, this crucial piece of the puzzle has been missing.

No longer: Here's Openomy/RSS. It's a web site that lets you publish your Openomy tags over RSS feeds-- subscribers to the feed get notified when files under the feed's tags get updated.

The coolest part of Openomy/RSS happens under the hood: Instead of being a core Openomy service, Openomy/RSS depends solely on the Openomy REST API. Also, we've decided to make the website open source-- It's built with Ruby on Rails and the Openomy Ruby language bindings. Since its a Rails web application, it should be easy to modify and extend to be the basis for any Openomy web application. We're really excited to see what you folks can come up with!

You can download the full source code to Openomy/RSS here. If you have any comments/suggestions/patches, email me: maurice.codik@gmail.com