Comments on: Mashing up OPML and Yahoo’s Search API http://www.crunchnotes.com/2005/11/25/mashing-up-opml-and-yahoos-search-api/ Tue, 06 Jan 2009 19:36:27 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.5 By: Library clips :: OPML Sampler: popular posts within an OPML :: November :: 2005 http://www.crunchnotes.com/2005/11/25/mashing-up-opml-and-yahoos-search-api/#comment-307 Library clips :: OPML Sampler: popular posts within an OPML :: November :: 2005 Mon, 28 Nov 2005 02:27:27 +0000 http://www.crunchnotes.com/?p=63#comment-307 [...] CrunchNotes points us to a post by J Wynia which describes how to extract the most popular posts from an OPML. Here is a sample from the Web 2.0 Workgroup’s OPML. [...] [...] CrunchNotes points us to a post by J Wynia which describes how to extract the most popular posts from an OPML. Here is a sample from the Web 2.0 Workgroup’s OPML. [...]

]]> By: Kimmo. » Hackeja ja hypeä http://www.crunchnotes.com/2005/11/25/mashing-up-opml-and-yahoos-search-api/#comment-304 Kimmo. » Hackeja ja hypeä Sun, 27 Nov 2005 10:56:18 +0000 http://www.crunchnotes.com/?p=63#comment-304 [...] OPML Sampling: Build a Page Showing the “Best” Item From Each RSS Feed [via] Jätä kommentti [...] [...] OPML Sampling: Build a Page Showing the “Best” Item From Each RSS Feed [via] Jätä kommentti [...]

]]> By: J Wynia http://www.crunchnotes.com/2005/11/25/mashing-up-opml-and-yahoos-search-api/#comment-298 J Wynia Sat, 26 Nov 2005 04:29:41 +0000 http://www.crunchnotes.com/?p=63#comment-298 Originally, I had approached this as a way, for instance to say to people who stumbled upon the Web 2.0 Workgroup and wondered what content they'd find on the sites to see not just whatever happens to be going on at the moment, but the most "interesting" stuff currently in the feeds. In other words, the most stable, representative sample of a given feed. However, in the light of day, I clearly see the potential to push this into other spaces as well. The points you make are things I've thought as the day has gone on as well and are places I'd like to take this. Yahoo worked well as the first proof of concept because it tolerated the hideous inefficiencies that are present. It's flattering that you'd even be comparing it to Memeorandum given that it's the result of a single sleepless night. Using delicious, Technorati, etc. would definitely help apply the same approach to more current content. A blending of those numbers to determine which post "wins" for a given feed, with weightings for "popular", "recent", "links from important sites", etc. could vary the value assigned to a post and help determine, for a given user, what they'd like to see as their headlines. Originally, I had approached this as a way, for instance to say to people who stumbled upon the Web 2.0 Workgroup and wondered what content they’d find on the sites to see not just whatever happens to be going on at the moment, but the most “interesting” stuff currently in the feeds. In other words, the most stable, representative sample of a given feed. However, in the light of day, I clearly see the potential to push this into other spaces as well.

The points you make are things I’ve thought as the day has gone on as well and are places I’d like to take this. Yahoo worked well as the first proof of concept because it tolerated the hideous inefficiencies that are present.

It’s flattering that you’d even be comparing it to Memeorandum given that it’s the result of a single sleepless night.

Using delicious, Technorati, etc. would definitely help apply the same approach to more current content. A blending of those numbers to determine which post “wins” for a given feed, with weightings for “popular”, “recent”, “links from important sites”, etc. could vary the value assigned to a post and help determine, for a given user, what they’d like to see as their headlines.

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