The service we are discussing is offered free of charge by MoreOver.com.
They provide categorically organized news feeds, updated by hand by their
own staff members. The news feeds are provided in several different formats,
one of which is WDDX.
Because MoreOver is only providing bibliographic information about the
articles, they do not need to charge any royalty fees. They have in turn
provided this service free of charge to developers.
MoreOver has many other services that it does charge for, including
supplying the news content to several high profile sites such as AltaVista.
In any case, the MoreOver is a good quick and dirty way to add more content
to a site free of charge. It is really a good deal all around.
Benjamin S. Rogers
Web Developer, c4.net
Voice: (508) 240-0051
Fax: (508) 240-0057
-----Original Message-----
From: Jeff Small [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Monday, April 09, 2001 3:06 PM
To: CF-Talk
Subject: Moreover News Feed
Okay, maybe I live under a rock or something, but I gotta ask. What exactly
*is* the moreover news feed? Is it a news service that lets you use that
cfhttp tag and pull news stuff from their site? Does it cost money? How does
it work? It seems really cool on your site, and I'm curious as to how this
all works...
Jeff Small
on 4/9/01 2:33 PM, Benjamin S. Rogers at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> A scheduled task queries MoreOver once an hour (or when the page below
first
> loads) and deserializes the WDDX feed into a query that is stored in the
> application scope.
>
> Anyway, the actual display is nothing terribly interesting. We just use
the
> extra content to liven up the site a bit.
>
> http://www.foodcount.com/Index.cfm?Method=Nutrition
>
> Benjamin S. Rogers
> Web Developer, c4.net
> Voice: (508) 240-0051
> Fax: (508) 240-0057
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Vance Duke [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Monday, April 09, 2001 1:38 PM
> To: CF-Talk
> Subject: Moreover News Feed
>
>
>
> I assume there are some people here using the Moreover.com News feed. I
was
> wondering if someone might like to send me links to their site so I might
> see how you implemented it. I am not much on the "look and feel" side and
> was looking to get some ideas.
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Vance Duke
> Sr. CF Programmer
>
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