Saturday, August 8, 2009

Work goes on

The work on footll.com continues...
What I was doing today is to trying to find good feeds for the aggregator. I found a couple of good websites, publishing news for the majority of the most popular European leagues - England, Spain, Italy. To go further and find feeds for less popular leagues like for example the the Bulgarian first league you need to do lots of manual work. Currently I am using the google search in coordination with a specialized RSS search enigne. I must say that for the Bulgarian league, although less popular, it is still possible to find some quality feeds around the internet, but this is not the case for lots of the Asian or African leagues.
Another think you should look after is the quality of your feed links. Some sites on the Internet don't provide original content, but rather republish or syndicate content from foreign forces (Yes, exactly as I do) so my goal is to find the ones with original content and include only them in my aggregation.
More update on this later....

In the meantime I was trying to help some pligg users in the pligg forum for some minor issues. Well, it was not easy. Some of the forums' users ask questions that need just elementary knowledge of programming or at least CSS and javascript. Some require features what will just kill their website, like the guy who as seeking for modification to make his site require that the user votes for at least three links, before the site allows him/her to submit a new story. Incredible...
I don't know if my efforts in the forum are worthy. In the end of the day not all sites out there can be a success. If every high school student was able to build a site what makes millions (or at least hundreds) then money are going to lose their value...

See you soon

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