I'm an avid user of iGoogle, mostly for reading news feeds from various sources. One thing that really bugs me is having to scan through stories I've already seen. The "Mark as Read" feature is great, but there's a "loophole" that renders it almost useless for the major news feeds such as Associated Press and Reuters.
Here's why: These news services continually re-post their stories throughout the day with new time-stamps. This means that "Mark as Read" will only suppress the current instance of the story. Subsequent postings of the same story will appear as an unread story. In most cases, the story has the exact same headline. Since I'm not a developer, I don't know whether this is possible or not, but it seems like this problem could be solved by modifying the Mark as Read feature to look at headlines vs. whatever it is currently using. My question whether this would require a mod to the iGoogle reader API, or if a gadget developer could implement this strategy using the existing API? --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "iGoogle Developer Forum" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/Google-Gadgets-API?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
