Tag Archive for 'Aggregation'

Pipe experiments

Published on February 19, 2007 in Geekery. View Comments Tags: , , , , , , , .

Yahoo! Pipes is for sure one of the most exciting recently released toy and I was desperately seeking a reason to play around with it.

Why climb a mountain?
Because it’s there.
Sir Edmund Hillary

So today I tried to find Bengal cats for sale in and around Vienna. Yahoo! Pipes helped me to merge existing content of different sites regarding Bengal cats in Vienna to a single feed, filter it by my chosen keywords and re-publish it as RSS feed again. As result I get noticed by my RSS reader whenever a new Bengal cat is available for sale in Vienna.

The tricky part was to integrate a site without existing feed. Yahoo! Pipes doesn’t provide comprehensive content analysis of non-feed-content out of the box. So I used Dapper instead to transform HTML content into a valid RSS feed and pipe it through my Vienna Bengal cat search pipe.

Funny thing, those pipes… but one problem I still have is that if one source fails the whole pipe screws up.

Geoblogger.eu clean-up

Published on April 30, 2006 in Geomensch. Closed Tags: , , , , .

In order to avoid post duplicates I cleaned up geoblogger.eu and removed all feeds which are already aggregated by planet geospatial. So geoblogger.eu should now be a nice add-on to planet geospatial, for people interested in mainly non-english geoblogs.

E like Easter and .EU

Published on April 18, 2006 in Geomensch. Closed Tags: , , , , , .

As you may have noticed, or not, there is a new top level domain available: .eu.

I got caught by the landrush two weeks ago and registered 2 new domains too.

If I didn’t mess up with my redirects you should see the first one above in your browser’s URL bar: spanring.eu. It’ll be my new main domain name for this site. During Easter holidays I found the time to change my server configurations and update DNS, etc. If you have any bookmark or subscription please change the URL to spanring.eu. Well, the old one, spanring.name, still works and will do so for at least another year. Probably even longer, because there is a good chance that I’ll keep this domain too.

The second domain I bought was geoblogger.eu:

geoblogger.eu is an aggregation of GIS, cartography or “neogeography” weblogs based in Europe or in any other way Europe related. The aim is not to exclude the rest of the world but to focus on the European scene and to give a general overview about people, organisations or topics of interest in this region. [more]

The main idea behind geoblogger.eu was quite simple: publish and share geo related parts of my reading list. Maybe somebody else finds this site and links useful or, even better, has some recommendations on further weblogs to include. If so, feel free to send an email to ask[at]geoblogger.eu.

I’m well aware about geobloggers.com, the former Flickr Google maps geotagging mashup, but geoblogger.eu just says in one word what this site should be about. If there is any problem in terms of registered name or something, please let me know.

The newsfeed on geoblogger.eu isn’t working properly. I’ll try to fix it within the next few days.