Features...

• Simple
• Small Footprint
• Lightweight
• Local
• Extensible
• Peer-to-Peer
• Various output flavours, including RSS 1.0, HTML, ...
• Open Source
• 100% Python
• Cross-Platform (Peerkat should run wherever Python does)
• Browser-Independent
• Built on top of the lightweight Python Gadfly database
• Uses "off-the-shelf" Open Source components

See http://www.oreillynet.com/~rael/lang/python/peerkat/

and

http://sourceforge.net/projects/peerkat/

Peerkat has its own Yahoo! Groups mailing list at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/peerkat/

I suggest people get the latest CVS instead of the tarball. It's more up to date.

-- DavidLeBlanc - 17 Mar 2002

Sorry, I couldn't make out what PeerKat actually IS. Does it the same as TWiki? Something different? Vary slightly?

"personal syndicated data aggregator living on your computer desktop" doesn't really give me much. "Personal" - does that mean "no networking/collaboration support"? "Syndicated" - is there a syndicate at work? (Impulse: I don't want syndicates on my computer.) Who's the member of the syndicate? Are there multiple syndicates? "data aggregator" - what is that aggregation? I know how to aggregate statistical data (meaning I take subtotals and totals across various data slices), but how do I aggregate written text? Or is this really a statistics tool? "living on your computer desktop" - well, duh. If it's personal, I don't see where it could live otherwise.

If I were nasty, I'd have said that "personal syndicated data aggregator living on your computer desktop" is content-free PR-speak, but I'm a kinda nice guy so I don't say it ;-).

-- JoachimDurchholz - 18 Mar 2002

PeerKat is really a rather sophisticated RSS reader (see RichSiteSummary) that could be used to pull TWiki WebChanges (through TWikiSyndication using the XML-based RSS format). If you have a customised SlashDot page, you are using slashdot as an RSS reader, and most WebLogs have similar features - Peerkat is just letting you do this without having a weblog. The aggregation just refers to having more than one RSS feed coming into a single place - e.g. you can have TWikiSyndication, WebLogs, NewsGroups and many other types of feed such as BBC news, tech news, etc. For more about RSS, read up on some of the articles linked from RichSiteSummary.

I've tried to summarise this above.

-- RichardDonkin - 18 Mar 2002

TWiki has now a RSS reader, Plugins.HeadlinesPlugin

-- PeterThoeny - 12 Jun 2002