I just got off the phone with a representative from Accuweather. They were generous enough to setup a weather feed specifically for the uPortal community and that feed has driven the Weather Portlet that is bundled with uPortal. Unfortunately, they discovered that someone outside higher ed has gotten a hold of the the uPortal weather feed and has been using it in a mobile phone app. They have seen a huge spike in traffic on the uportal feed which violates the terms of use that we were given. They will be shutting it down immediately. Before you get too upset, they reserved the right in their terms of use (that is included in the Weather Portlet source distribution) to discontinue the feed if they deemed necessary.
With that said, they still want to provide a data feed for the uPortal community. We will just have to go about things differently. We can no longer publish the data feed url in a publicly available place. I haven't quite figured out how that will be accomplished and I am open to ideas. Parker Grimes Programmer Analyst Supervisor Information Technology Department Southern Utah University -- You are currently subscribed to uportal-dev@lists.ja-sig.org as: arch...@mail-archive.com To unsubscribe, change settings or access archives, see http://www.ja-sig.org/wiki/display/JSG/uportal-dev
