You can consider using Yahoo! Pipes <http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/>? I have used this in an HackU event for a similar use case. It was also free of charge when I last checked.
-- Regards, Varun On Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 11:09 PM, Naval Saini <[email protected]> wrote: > 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. > > > -- 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.
