Thanks for the post and tips Kevin. I'm checkin out the blog.
Yves On 3/8/06, Kevin Graeme <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Feed Aggregation is becoming an entire business niche. > > - The most popular open source aggregator is Planet:Planet. But it's > Python. > > > - There are a number of plugins for the various popular blog engines for > the > smaller scale needs. But nothing CF there. > > - Then there's the big business aggregators like NewsGator that offer both > online aggregators or Enterprise installs and Private Label customized > options. Their enterprise version is .NET but appears to have an API and > webservices for integrating into intranet portals and such. > > Not much to get you started in CF, unfortunately. As for implementations > for > keeping the feeds current, I've seen three approaches: > > 1. Scheduled polling like you mentioned. This is the easiest to do, but > obviously it's a brute force approach that puts the most strain on all the > resources involved. > > 2. User triggered retrieve and cache. When someone actually looks at the > aggregator information for a particular content area, do a lookup at that > point and then cache that for a period of time so that it's not updating > for > each user hit. This is similar to how many desktop aggregator tools work. > > 3. Webservice triggers in the blogs you poll. For instance, in the > WordPress > software there's a screen in the admin to add any webservices you want to > notify of updates to the blog. This is the most elegant technically, but > obviously only works with feeds that can notify a webservice of updates. > > And of course, there's the mix and blend of all the above. For instance, > using method 2's user triggers to make sure that blogs being aggregated > are > actually of use to the viewer and then adding it to method 1's scheduled > polling queue for a period of time. > > Here's a blog covering the Aggregation industry. > http://www.niallkennedy.com/blog/archives/software/feed_aggregators/ > > Have fun! > > --- > Kevin Graeme > Cooperative Extension Technology Services > University of Wisconsin-Extension > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Yves Arsenault [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: Tuesday, March 07, 2006 7:08 PM > > To: CF-Talk > > Subject: RSS site like fullasagoog.com > > > > Hey there, > > > > I'm considering attempting to build a similar site to fullasagoog.com. > > > > Basically, pull in feeds from many different blogs and sort > > them (DESC). > > > > I'm wondering if anyone has built something similar and would > > maybe have > > some suggestions on what to look out for. > > > > Also, I guess I'm not sure what the best approach would be. > > > > Pulling the feeds and storing into a database, then display and sort. > > Should I run a script every few minutes to check the feeds > > for new entries? > > And when the page is loaded, I would use some query caching > > so as not to . > > > > Having never done a whole lot with rss feeds other than > > simply displaying > > their contents... just trying to find the most efficiant way > > to go about. > > > > Thanks, > > > > -- > > Yves Arsenault > > > > "Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into > > a friend". > > --Martin Luther King, Jr. > > > > > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:4:234644 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
