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New Features, OCS, More Sites

posted by Krow on 06:48 AM July 23rd, 2001   Printer-friendly   Email story
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Ok, we have a host of new features. First, we now do OCS. So what is OCS? OCS is a an XML format like RSS for syndication. Its contents though are listing of other sites RDF files. Slashcode's though contains all of the RDF for sites I know about that run Slash. If you find that your's is not there, then perhaps you should consider adding your site to the sites.pl list. There is now a specific URL for adding sites BTW.
In other news if you check your slashboxes in your account you will find that we are now pulling the RSS of any slash site that I know about it. You can now also search headlines for all slash site via this link (which is an experiment at the moment I might add).
Finally, if you are looking for more RSS feeds for your own site, I keep a larger master list at Newsglut that you might want to check out (and yes, that site is running Slash).
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  • similar technologies (Score:0)

    by Anonymous Coward
    newsglut, and the feedsearch page linked above, work a lot like like fyuze.com [fyuze.com]. something you might want to check out if you find the concept interesting, though fyuze seems to be quite a bit farther along as far as functionality is concerned.

    by the way, i couldn't find any listing of sites or feeds over at newsglut.
  • This is sweet. But speaking of RDFs, how are they generally pulled? I just tried pulling mine with lynx -source, but because mod_gzip is installed it turned out to be gibberish. I think that's because mod_gzip will always send compressed output if (and only if) the browser can accept it, and lynx can, but doesn't bother to uncompress it when you just dump the source. I reconfigured mod_gzip to exclude RDFs and now lynx gets it fine.

    So I'm just wondering if anyone pulls RDFs using this method, or with any other agent that supports gzipped content but does not uncompress before feeding it to the processor.

    Also, the main TravTalk RDF is at http://TravTalk.org/travtalkorg.rdf. You have it pointing to http://TravTalk.org/articles.rdf which gets most of it but not all.
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  • Wouldn't it be better to have the search return the actual RDF entries instead of just the site name, which links to a preview of the whole RDF?
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  • this just came to mind...

    something that would be REALLY cool ... a feature that lets you put in a list of key words or phrases that you're interested in. Whenever a story on a Slash site appears whose title contains that word or phrase, it would e-mail you a link to the story.

    Would that not rock? :-)
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  • feature exists (Score:0)

    by Anonymous Coward
    not too plug the site too much, but fyuze [fyuze.com] allows you to do this [fyuze.com] (ie, auto-scan for items of interest by keyword). and since it pulls content from slashdot/slashcode/newsforge/etc, it can basically acheive exactly what you're asking for.

    of course no one will mod this up, because they think it sounds to "market-speak." oh well.
  • The support for OCS is a first step in droping RSS? Ups, RSS 0.91, 0.92, 1.0 and now OCS. We need a more homogeneous field to work :-(
  • Ok, I have saw it. RSS is to describe a channel and OCS is to describe a group of channel. So they are complementary.
  • OCS is currently what sites are using for trading information. Most likely this week there will be a new module for RSS introduced that will allow it to take over where OCS is dropping the ball.
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  • Re:feature exists (Score:0)

    by Anonymous Coward
    I think you hit the nail on the head, your post does read like market speak (and its not a slash site BTW...).