Comments on: Addictomatic

By: Padunic

Padunic — Sun, 03 May 2009 18:22:25 +0000

Hi,

Great, great job!

You plan sell this like a script or is just a new service on the web?

I would like build some like that in south america market.

Regards.

By: zara clothing

zara clothing — Fri, 26 Dec 2008 06:08:03 +0000

Rather interesting search engine. How is the progress of it?

By: Addictomatic Refreshed | alexking.org

Addictomatic Refreshed | alexking.org — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 18:18:53 +0000

[...] The overall look has been updated with a great new design from Bryan Bell, and a number of little features have been added and minor tweaks made since the initial launch. [...]

By: Presenting at Refresh Denver | alexking.org

Presenting at Refresh Denver | alexking.org — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 03:56:09 +0000

[...] Denver meeting this coming Wednesday. I’ll be talking about Addictomatic, which we had the opportunity to build earlier this [...]

By: (a different) Alex

(a different) Alex — Fri, 23 May 2008 01:21:42 +0000

Very nice deisgn. Looking foward to using it

By: Alex

Alex — Tue, 20 May 2008 22:13:05 +0000

We wrote the site in PHP, but did not use any frameworks (CodeIgniter, CakePHP, etc.) in order to streamline everything.

The best RSS parser out there is the Universal Feed Parser, it’s written in Python.

By: Alex L.

Alex L. — Tue, 20 May 2008 22:03:40 +0000

What language did you end up deciding on to power the back-end for this? PHP? RoR?

I’ve never seen comparisons between the built in RSS parsers for either of these languages, so I’m interested to know which direction you took to get the performance where you needed it.

By: H. Duthel

H. Duthel — Tue, 13 May 2008 06:31:14 +0000

I think Addictomatic is the best I have seen as RSS News. Is estethic and attractiv to, and very clear all.
I think is a great amazing job.
I have it added to my website.

By: chidi nebo

chidi nebo — Mon, 12 May 2008 13:26:12 +0000

Addict-o-matic sounds really impressive. While I cannot describe myself as being ‘techy’, I’d like ot see how it works. Already, I’m looking at how it can be modified to work in an environment like here in Nigeria. Great stuff. Inventors like you make the world go round. Keep it up.

By: Chris Frerecks

Chris Frerecks — Sun, 04 May 2008 13:41:50 +0000

Neat.

By: goblinbox

goblinbox — Sat, 03 May 2008 01:10:58 +0000

Oooh, I *heart* Addictomatic! Customisable! Linkable!

By: Dan

Dan — Fri, 02 May 2008 17:35:42 +0000

I agree, it’s not a ripoff. But I’ve been using another site called Feedables which is similar to this concept as well. They provide RSS to all their sites as well as an iPhone interface. You can also sign up to get your own.

By: Geof F. Morris

Geof F. Morris — Fri, 02 May 2008 11:18:22 +0000

And hey, it got Daring Fireball’d [with you name-checked; although you probably want to go correct John on that one].

By: Sunil

Sunil — Fri, 02 May 2008 09:59:44 +0000

Interesting concept, the customisable and bookmark-able UI is a great idea. I’ll give it some regular use and see whether it “sticks”!

One bug, perhaps: whilst all the other sources work fine, the Google News, Google News Images and Delicious tags always return “No Results Found” after several seconds of the loading circle, even for a popular term like “iphone”.

By: Alex

Alex — Fri, 02 May 2008 05:28:52 +0000

Addictomatic certainly shares some features/concepts with popurls and Alltop, however those sites each have their own niche. popurls shows the popular items from a variety of sites, Alltop has pre-set topic pages. In contrast, Addictomatic allows you to choose what to search for.

Try it out with some searches of your own, you might find you like it.