Update. The uPortal weather feed provided by Accuweather has been disabled as of now. Your weather portlets will not work.
Parker On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 10:16 AM, Parker Grimes <grim...@suu.edu> wrote: > I just got off the phone with a representative from Accuweather. They were > generous enough to setup a weather feed specifically for the uPortal > community and that feed has driven the Weather Portlet that is bundled with > uPortal. Unfortunately, they discovered that someone outside higher ed has > gotten a hold of the the uPortal weather feed and has been using it in a > mobile phone app. They have seen a huge spike in traffic on the uportal feed > which violates the terms of use that we were given. They will be shutting it > down immediately. Before you get too upset, they reserved the right in their > terms of use (that is included in the Weather Portlet source distribution) > to discontinue the feed if they deemed necessary. > > With that said, they still want to provide a data feed for the uPortal > community. We will just have to go about things differently. We can no > longer publish the data feed url in a publicly available place. I haven't > quite figured out how that will be accomplished and I am open to ideas. > > > Parker Grimes > Programmer Analyst Supervisor > Information Technology Department > Southern Utah University > > -- You are currently subscribed to uportal-dev@lists.ja-sig.org as: arch...@mail-archive.com To unsubscribe, change settings or access archives, see http://www.ja-sig.org/wiki/display/JSG/uportal-dev
