Posted by Daniel Lobo on February 14, 2007 at 4:48pm
The people at las Sociedad de las Indias Electrónicas have just launched a couple of days ago a new open dynamic rss aggregator called Feevy. I wonder how it compares to the current capacity of some of Drupal´s aggregators and what could be its impact or if we have anything to learn from it. Their launch is primarily directed to Europe and Latin America but are already receiving interest from some networks with a heavy US presence.
Regards,
Daniel
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Feevy is an off site
Feevy is an off site solution for aggregation. You create an account, tell them what RSS feed you would like to aggregate and BANG you get a little script snippet that you just paste on your site.
Neat and quick. But not very flexible.
The aggregators in Drupal (core aggregator module, simplefeed, feedparser, leech ...) will allow you to aggregate content to your site, some of them actually create nodes from RSS items and thus open the door to the whole drupal world of commenting, tagging, publishing etc.
Hope this helps,
Alex
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Indeed!
Thanks Alex,
It does. I was approaching that conclusion. I tried Feevy embedded within a block, and it worked relatively well for a while. Then, I assume that maybe due to problems on their end (and I know they had problems), it slowed down my whole 4.7 to a point where I began to have users warning me that something was wrong with Daquella manera. I deactivated the block and all went back to normal. The people of Feevy say that they are trying hard to fix plenty of problems on their end, from the capacity to updating non responsive feeds to bug reporting. And like you said, I like its quickness but missed the flexibility of Drupal. I now wait either to give them a second chance or more likely to find the time to manage those feeds I would like to offer to the readers of Daquella.
Regards,
Daniel
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Daniel
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