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 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:4:234645 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
