Looks pretty sharp!
My own 2 cents on transcoding would be to ask the site owners. Considering
how much content providers have to shell out on other offline browsers
(rhymes with avantslow) to get their channel in a showcase, I think that of
the top providers there would be more than a few that would like to have
theirs profiled for free, since it brings more awareness of their product,
and gets it onto more peoples handhelds if they know about the service.
I think that they might ask that their ads be left intact (even though there
is that capability by the parser). I doubt they get paid by impression,
since other networks cache the content anyways, and serve it from their
server, so they can't trace the people who looked at their images anyways,
unless (I believe) they cough up some more money to that offline browser
company.
Best wishes,
Robert
> -----Original Message-----
> From: David A. Desrosiers [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Tuesday, September 04, 2001 7:52 AM
> To: Plucker Development List; Plucker General List
> Subject: Daily Dose
>
>
>
> I'm all set to launch a potential new portion to the Plucker
> website that would make it a bit more useful to some users.
>
> I have been collecting and harvesting URLs and various Palm
> formatted websites for quite some time, including XML and RSS
> renditions of
> lots of sites (about 600 sites in my collection so far). I'm
> beginning to do
> daily and hourly builds of these sites and have decided to put them where
> other people can take advantage of them. Here's a screenshot of what the
> interface looks like so far (subject to slight changes of course):
>
> http://gnu-designs.com/code/plucker-dailydose.gif
>
> There are about 40 listed so far in the 'daily dose' section that
> are "common" sites and are broad enough for nearly anyone to use. I can
> surely take suggestions for other sites as needed.
>
> The question becomes.. should we make this type of information
> available on the website? Or should we leave it off, because of the
> potential "transcoding" concerns? I think I know Mike's opinion
> on this one,
> but I'd like to hear from others.
>
> The other option is that I make these urls gather the content
> "runtime" (upon click, like the CVS snapshot is done now) rather than by a
> schedule as it is now. The display you see is completely dynamic,
> taken from
> a directory of pdb files and images which match them. File size, date,
> update stamp, etc. are all pulled from the pdb file itself.
>
> Comments anyone?
>
> If anyone hasn't noticed, I'm trying to brush up on my perl a bit
> more because there's a whole bunch of new things coming soon...
> but I'd like
> to do something a bit more interactive on the site to keep people coming
> back.
>
>
>
>
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