Sometimes it takes a concrete example to show the true potential of an idea. Dapper is just such an idea. When it was first launched I thought it was clever but as a glorified screen-scraper I did not see much use for it.
Then I found an example that made Dapper shine.
Luminous Landscape is by far and away the best photography site on the net. I’ll take its opinion over any other photographic review site without question. They are not first with news, rumour or conjecture and only deal with truly interesting photographic news (in other words they don’t report on every single new digicam released of which there are a handful each day.)
Unfortunately LL doesn’t have an RSS feed so keeping up to date is a weekly affair of visiting the website (so Web 1.0.)
Enter Dapper. I just used it to create a Luminous Landscape RSS feed, scrapping the LL data off the front-page and pumping out a working feed. Fantastic. The process was easy once I figured out you need to group your fields for the RSS output to work.
Well done Dapper. A useful service implemented in a usable UI.
