oh, the example in my first post may have suggested a custom url
although lat/lon are just additional post parameters.
better example...
hub.callback http://your.hostname.com
hub.mode subscribe
hub.secret
hub.lat 39.51
hub.lon -76.24
hub.verify sync
hub.verify_token
Bob Wyman wrote:
There are many attributes of an item published via PSHB that one might
want to select on in order to build a custom feed. Location is certainly
one of the more interesting ones. However, there are many others. For
instance, it would be interesting to subscribe to the work of specific
authors, not just feeds. Or, feeds from anyone at a particular domain
(like a company), or all items that contain the word "Foobar"...
Certainly, URL conventions could be constructed to cover many of the
common cases, however, what we'll end up with if we go too far down that
road is a situation where many items are being published in multiple
feeds (wasting resource) and we'll still want to have the capability to
do things like subscribe to words or phrases in published items.
Personally, I think we should restrain ourselves from defining too many
URL conventions and instead think about the more general problem of
doing content-based subscriptions on aggregates of feeds. I think it
would be best to leave core PSHB itself as a simple "topic-based" system
with a simple core subscription syntax (i.e. subscribe by feed URL
only...) and a mechanism to pass "firehose" feeds to more complex
subscription systems. Then, we should define companion specifications
for systems that would allow content-based filtering of feeds in more
complex ways.
bob wyman
On Sun, Jan 31, 2010 at 5:56 PM, Michael Barinek <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
I'm not sure if location based "topics/feeds" have been discussed in
the past, but here's something else that I've been playing around with.
I've been including 'hub.lat' and 'hub.lon' parameters in
subscription requests and then filtering inbound feeds by location
(when available).
for example...
hub.callback=http://your.hostname.com&hub.lat=39.51&hub.lon=76.24
I'd be interested in getting feedback - interesting, not
interesting, doesn't fit...type stuff?
Here's a small application spike (still rough around the edges) that
I've been playing around with http://www.localhash.com/
Thanks
