aggregation

Is anybody working/experimenting with aggregating comments for articles? I'd love to see a (FeedAPI) processor for pulling in comments for aggregated articles.

See also feature request here:

http://drupal.org/node/241935

 

 
Problems:

• Drupal's core aggregator does not satisfy the requirements of state
  of the art aggregation applications. E. g. core aggregator lacks
  pluggable configurations or the possibility of creating nodes from
  feed items.
• There is an explosion of contrib modules that try to cover the
  deficiencies of Drupal's aggregator in one or the other way. Previous
  attempts to unify aggregation functionality had limited success.

Summary:
I want to write two modules for Drupal as part of Google Summer of Code. One called meme_tracker and the other called machine_learning_api. The meme_tracker module will use the machine_learning_api to intelligently filter and group content from both internal and external content sources. The module's purpose is to find and display to a community in real time the most interesting conversations and memes within the community as they emerge.

Hello Drupliers. My name is Kyle Mathews. I'm a grad student in Information Systems at Brigham Young University working as a research assistant to several faculty members here. We are studying how and where social software can be used in education.

In the past eight months, I've built a number of classroom websites using Drupal. I've learned a considerable bit about Drupal in the process, became very involved in the community, and am writing a module (writing_assignment -- still a work in progress btw). I've loved most everything about Drupal but have found Drupal is missing an important component for building the perfect social learning website. This itches. So, in the best open-source fashion, I'm applying to Google Summer of Code to scratch my itch.

I made a very rough implementation of a module that just uses the nodeapi 'rss item' op to add cck fields as extra elements in the item namespace. In RSS 2.0, adding extra elements is allowed as long as they're w/in a namespace on the spec., and Drupal's nodeapi makes this pretty easy to do. My question is, is there already some functionality out there that does this?

The Feed Element Mapper maps now not only standard RSS tags to taxonomy, but also any RSS tag to taxonomy or CCK fields.

Check out the screencast here:

http://www.developmentseed.org/blog/2008/jan/24/pick-it-feed-stick-it-no...

and a step by step guide how to build your own mapper:

http://www.developmentseed.org/blog/2008/jan/24/build-your-own-mapper-fe...

Hello, all,

As part of some work we're doing, I put together a proof of concept leveraging the functionality within the FeedAPI and Views.

It's a pretty simple site -- all it does is bring in some selected feeds, import any existing tags, and add on some additional tags set on each feed as it is added to the site.

But it starts to get fun when you use views to organize the content based on author, taxonomy, etc --

I was also amazed at how quickly the site came together -- like I said, it's basic, but the basic config came together in about 6 hours.

I am happy to announce that after a week of cleaning up and improving the API and adding some critical features, yesterday FeedAPI 1.0 beta 1 version came out. These are the features:

Embedded Media Field now ships with Embedded Media Import, for importing photosets, playlists, and the like. If you install that module, admins will have the ability to import photosets from Flickr as individual nodes. Just make sure the 'Allow import' checkbox on the content type (which must have a field defined with Embedded Media Field) is checked, proper permissions are given to editors, and look at the settings on the new tab at /admin/content/emfield/import.

Since the gods of aggregation are all here, and I've exhausted all other options, here goes my question:

In our project, we are dealing with aggregated feeds that have media enclosures in them. Photos, the occasional video, etc. How can one parse these files and use them?

My related post:
http://drupal.org/node/180385

I'd like everyone to share how they are using the Aggregation module on their site. Let's inspire others so that interest will build. Yes, I know you can import feeds and create more nodes. But what are you doing with the nodes? What are you importing? Why are you importing?

On my personal website (http://ericatkins.com), I'm using the Aggregation module to make my website my life hub. I'm involved in a ton of social network websites like Facebook, del.icio.us. Flickr, DIGG, Twitter, etc.