Half Baked Idea: Delicious RSS Importer

I have a confession, I’m an RSS junkie, I won’t even try to survive without it. As an RSS junkie, I read a lot, and would like to be able to catchup on my RSS feeds when nature callsfrom almost anywhere.

There are currently several elements to my utopic RSS lifestyle:

• iPhone 3G
• NewsGator online account and services
  • NetNewsWire for iPhone
  • NetNewsWire for Mac
  • FeedDemon for Windows
• Delicious

Here’s the great part: NewsGator products all synch with each other, so I’m never re-reading content.

Here’s the real problem though, I read most of my feeds on my iPhone, which doesn’t easily post content to Delicious, instead they use something called “Clippings”.

This Clipping thing, while interesting, is something similar to Google Reader’s Shared Items, just with less features. Both Shared Items and Clippings can themselves be output as RSS feeds and you can do fun stuff with that to be sure.

So the problem is this: how can I import RSS content into Delicious?

Delicious themselves don’t have a good answer. Google also doesn’t provide relevant solutions, even other solutions don’t quite measure up.

So, without further adieuado, here’s the first Half-Baked Bits project announcement: Delicious RSS Importer.

Here’s the idea in a nutshell:

1. User hits a page and enters Delicious credentials. Those credentials are stored in cookies, no server-side saves.
2. User adds RSS feeds of their choosing
3. User adds items from those feeds to Delicious, while being provided a simple tag window of popular and existing tags, existing items (via URL) are then hidden from display

Thanks again to Balsamiq for their excellent Mockups tool.