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Thursday, April 11, 2002 |
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Potential Google SOAP API based Services It looks as if I've been thinking along the same line as James Snell for some time: Even better yet, allow me to create subscriptions to the google database. When the entry for a given site is updated, google gives me a ping. This could work for searches too. I send a search query with a callback address. Rather than getting results back right away, I get results back on an ongoing basis as sites are found that match the query.[Snell's Blog]Well James, with the SOAP API, you don't have to send the subscription query to Google. I'm sure a third party provider would be able to get your query, and provide the service while using the SOAP API to check on Google regularly.
As a matter of fact, I remember designing a similar service based on CGI and HTML scraping about 6 years ago. Google's performance and web services sure put a new twist on these things.
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Jon Udell Cuts Through RSS Description
I know that truncating RSS items has been on top of his wish list for some time. Publishing in a heads / decks / stories format is one of his memes. Jon, this last link possibly is an opmlRendered intrusion into your work, I'll remove it if you wish. Heads and decks are also one of my pet subjects, so I think Jon's modification will soon find its way into s l a m. Since I'm sometimes using titles to link to a different place than the post itself (Radio's default setting), I'll probably add a Read more... link at the end of the first sentence, a la Slashdot. And of course, since Jon describes his hack as 'completely non-kosher', I'll wait for the Radio Beth Din to come up with the appropriate callback.
... Well, it didn't take long :-) Browsing s l a m 's home page in search of new reader comments, I ran into the latest extract from Dave's instant outline (opmlRender is sometimes surprising). Dave added some further observations in this morning's Scripting News. |
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