Hi all, We are building a News Aggregator on Mobile phones and can use help in one of the things we are getting blocked at (bottlenecked at).
Our news app can be broken down in 3 parts, 1. Delivering news to the user (where we create value with UI/UX), 2. Personalizing the news based on user interests (here our alogs create value) and 3. Souring news (RSS feeds) from thousands & ten thousands of blogs. We have worked considerable on (1) and (2) to create value for the user and now need to solve (3). The 3rd part of the problem has been solved many times and we dont believe there is much value for us to create here. There are many sites offering services - such as syndic8 (for some reason APIs are not working though), spinn3r, newsisfree, google feeds, etc; and usually are paid. We are looking to reduce our expenditure. Some possible ways to do that would be, 1. Using an open source software to which we can add a lot of RSS feeds (under different topics). The software should ideally have the functionality for clustering similar stories in a topic, do some spam filtering, be able to arrange topics (based on the interest they have generated), etc. We will put this OSS software on AWS, as we dont expect fetching and updating feeds to cost sufficient bandwidth. 2. We are open to other suggestions aswell. Thanks. -- For more details about this list http://datameet.org/discussions/ --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "datameet" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
