RE: [Mod-pubsub-developer] Meg Hourihan: "mod_pubsub-enable Amazon"

[Adam R. <Ad...@Kn...>]

This is a beautiful thing, Mike.

Now, how can we give it some extra sizzle?

   :) Adam


-----Original Message-----
From: Asynch Messaging [mailto:asy...@ho...]
Sent: Friday, December 13, 2002 8:52 PM
To: Adam Rifkin; Scott Andrew LePera
Cc: mod...@li...; me...@me...
Subject: Re: [Mod-pubsub-developer] Meg Hourihan: "mod_pubsub-enable
Amazon"


I built a sample that periodically polls Amazon for the most popular =
books,
music, movies, software and toys.
It's not working completely... but its a start:

http://www.topiczero.com:8000/kn_apps/amazonpop/

The data isn't sorted (darn those amazon folks) and I have to do 4 =
requests
that get chunks of 10 entries, and I'm not seeing anything on toys or =
music
and the numbers probably won't change that often and the 'add comment' =
has
the wrong colors and so on...

I'll try checking in some code to sourceforge later tonite

----- Original Message -----
From: "Adam Rifkin" <Ad...@Kn...>
To: "Scott Andrew LePera" <sc...@sc...>
Cc: <mod...@li...>; <me...@me...>
Sent: Friday, December 13, 2002 9:13 AM
Subject: RE: [Mod-pubsub-developer] Meg Hourihan: "mod_pubsub-enable =
Amazon"


Number one, Meg I wish you were working at KnowNow still!  You are a =
font of
great ideas!!!

Number two, Scott this is a fantastic connection.  Please ask Mena and =
Ben
to come play with us...

  ;) Adam


-----Original Message-----
From: Scott Andrew LePera [mailto:sc...@sc...]
Sent: Fri 12/13/2002 8:28 AM
To: Adam Rifkin
Cc: mod...@li...
Subject: Re: [Mod-pubsub-developer] Meg Hourihan: "mod_pubsub-enable =
Amazon"
Meg has more comments today:

<http://www.megnut.com/archive.asp?which=3D2002_12_01_archive.inc#002348>=


"Another idea for mod_pubsub: real-time updates over at Weblogs.com.
 From what I can tell, weblogs.com receives a ping when a weblog
updates. It must store that info in a database or text file and then
whenever the page loads, writes the list from that. Why not subscribe to
its own pings and write them as they come in? Seems totally doable to =
me."

I had a similar idea yesterday: Movable Type's home page has a list of
"recently updated weblogs" which works essentially in the same way as
weblogs.com (MT users send a ping to Moveable Type's server when they
update).

It would probably be trivial for Mena and Ben to add a line of code that
forwards that ping on to a public router (like Joyce's machine or one of
the upcoming KN machines). Then we could build a demo similar to the one
Ev came up with for Blogger. Maybe we should ask them to come play with =
us?

-- Scott






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