rvw! tool repurposed

The review templating tool rvw!, after going through various different guises, now has a new use: as a means of posting recommendations for books, music and DVDs to del.icio.us. This enables easy addition of items to a 'currently reading/listening/watching' list.

There's also a 'delicious album' Applescript, to be placed in ~/Library/iTunes/Scripts (create the folder if it doesn't exist), that allows you to send the currently playing album from iTunes to del.icio.us, adding tags and links via rvw! on the way.

The main limitation at the moment is the Amazon catalogue, as I haven't got round to writing modules for searching iTMS, MusicBrainz or IMDB yet.

Update: as requested, here's a rvw! bookmarklet that should work from any Amazon product page (book, music or DVD anyway).

August 1, 2004

Comments

Wow, what a really cool tool. The integration of posting to delicious is great. How about - for future releases - if you added a post to Flickr option for posting cover images?

thanks

Posted by: juniorbonner on August 1, 2004 11:55 PM [Reply]

just some further thought to my above suggestion. If a post to Flickr option was added to the delicious one I could then use Feedburner's (http://www.feedburner.com/fb/a/home), new Flickr splice service (http://www.burningdoor.com/feedburner/announce/feedburner_flickr_release_20040714.html)

This would presumably then enable me to create a feed from delicious and Flickr, that includes my review and the cover image of the item.

Posted by: juniorbonner on August 2, 2004 12:02 AM [Reply]

Flickr posting of cover images is a nice idea, but I have a feeling the copyright demons wouldn't like that very much. A better option might be to parse the RSS feed from delicious to retrieve the ASIN number, then use that to display the image inline.

Posted by: alf on August 2, 2004 12:08 AM [Reply]

Alf, this is very, very cool. Any plans to integrate with Furl as well? I'm guessing that you just use a client side http and let the user log in themselves, instead of sending the password like the old post-to-blog method? If so, Furl shouldn't be hard to incorporate. Also, a bookmarklet that could be used from Amazon would be very cool. I once had one of these that pulled out the ASIN from the page/URL; I'll see if I can track it down.

Also, to juniorbonner: check out Blogdigger Groups (http://www.blogdigger.com/groups/) for combining any number of XML feeds into a single feed. I use this for my personal blog to combine a webjay playlist, Furl feed and blog content into one feed. You could even the resulting feed through FeedBurner if you wanted to. The UI for groups is a bit lacking, but there are some updates on the way.

Posted by: Greg G. on August 2, 2004 4:08 PM [Reply]

thanks Greg for the blogdigger suggestion. Alf - hadn't thought about any copyright issue, it'd be cool if you implement the option you suggest.

Posted by: juniorbonner on August 2, 2004 7:14 PM [Reply]

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