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• Hippo

Hippo will be a new Horde 4, PHP 5 application that aggregates content. It will initially be written to aggregate feeds, both internal from Jonah natively, and external (through Horde_Feed). Hippo will work with Horde_Content types and have Input and Output classes. Input classes will allow reading a content type, such as Horde_Feed feeds, Jonah internal feeds, comics, etc. Output classes will allow outputting a "remixed" feed from one or more inputs (such as combining an RSS feed with a few comics into a daily feed).

++ Bugs

Horde_Feed improvements to suport Hippo:

• http://bugs.horde.org/ticket/6877

• http://bugs.horde.org/ticket/6876

• @@--- http://bugs.horde.org/ticket/6879 @@

• @@--- http://bugs.horde.org/ticket/6880 @@

++ Source

Hippo is being developed in the [http://horde.org/source/git.php Horde hatchery]

++ People

ChuckHagenbuch is working on Hippo. MikeNaberezny may be interested in Hippo.

++ Description

• Horde_Cache will be used to cache content that isn't stored directly

• Some content types such as comics might include code to fetch and store themselves locally; we might decide that Horde_Feed external feeds should be fetched into a local content table also

• This application should be able to provide the backend for Planet Horde (http://planet.horde.org/)

• Fields to aggregate for feeds: title, url, uid, summary, content if any, content-type for content, date

• During Hippo runs, Horde_Log will be used for logging

• There will be the ability to run filters on Hippo_Input plugins. For instance, if a certain feed has the same junk in every entry, a filter could be attached to the Hippo_Input for that feed that would strip it out. Generic (regex-type) filters should be configurable via the UI; it should be possible to configure any kind of filter in a config file or separate input plugin class.

• This application should eventually be able to replace Klutz

• Additional possible content types include podcasts, content from other Horde applications (iCalendar data from Kronolith), "friend information (http://hasin.wordpress.com/2008/05/31/building-friendfeed-using-php-part-1/, http://hasin.wordpress.com/2008/06/03/building-services-like-friendfeed-using-php-part2/), etc.

+++ Changes from Klutz for comics driver

"try to fetch this comic" gives a blank page, though it works

• make "try to fetch this comic" links inline ajax calls

UI updates

default to the previous day's comics if today's haven't fetched yet

have a back-fill mode for fetch? http://example.org/horde/klutz/index.php?actionID=day&date=1217995200

• have the capability, just need to have it in the command-line script

• put the various fetch, rebuild sums, cleanup tasks into API calls.

• use those api calls in backend.php and rename backend.php to some more reasonable admin script

• better error reporting throughout the drivers and backend.php code

• feeds of specified comic sets

• tags? so, political cartoons, sometimes funny, always funny..

++ Resources

• http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/feedly_integrates_with_ubiquity.php

• http://www.newsgator.com/Individuals/NewsGatorInbox/Default.aspx

• http://www.newsgator.com/Individuals/NewsGatorOnline/Default.aspx

• http://lifestreamblog.com/create/

• http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/friendfeed.php

• http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/friendfeed_beta_interface.php

• http://hasin.wordpress.com/2008/05/31/building-friendfeed-using-php-part-1/

• http://hasin.wordpress.com/2008/06/03/building-services-like-friendfeed-using-php-part2/

• http://www.dapper.net/ - looks similar in concept though not open source

• http://www.sweetcron.com/ - code in beta now

• http://code.google.com/p/sweetcron/wiki/Themes

• http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/sweetcron_lifestream_self_hosted.php

• http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/mloovi_translate_any_rss_feed.php - translate feeds

• http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/pageonce_new_iphone_app.php - some killer feed ideas there

• http://www.25hoursaday.com/weblog/2008/06/10/TwoCardinalSinsOfRESTAPIDesignLessonsYouCanLearnFromTheNewsGatorRESTAPI.aspx

• http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/feedinformer_relaunches_its_al.php

• http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/friendfeed_dupe_detection.php

• http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/godaddy_unveils_mainstream_social_web_aggregator.php

• http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/npr_now_lets_you_roll_your_own_podcasts.php

• http://www.25hoursaday.com/weblog/2009/01/08/RepresentingRichMediaAndSocialNetworkActivitiesInRSSAtomFeeds.aspx

+++ YQL - super data source

• http://developer.yahoo.com/yql/

• http://www.wait-till-i.com/2008/12/12/yql-is-so-the-bomb-to-get-web-data-as-xml-or-json/

• http://ajaxian.com/archives/yql-converting-the-web-to-json-with-mock-sql

+++ Semantic data sources

• http://semanticproxy.com/

• http://www.opencalais.com/

+++ Feed sources

• http://www.guardian.co.uk/help/feeds

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