Say4.com - a RSS mashup
Wednesday, January 04, 2006
Some weeks ago we launched Say4, a bible and news mashup.
What do we mean with this ? Very simple, Say4 gets the latest news from a RSS feed of the BBC. That RSS feed is extracted with the help of Magpierss. Once we have all the information separated, we put the title of each one of the headlines into a variable and perform a search for that headline in a MySQL database that contains all the text of the Bible, each line being one record. What we do is searching for similarities or references to that specific headline in the whole of the Bible.
The results ? Sometimes surprising, sometimes deceiving, sometime intriguing. But we keep coming back to the page looking for what's new there.
And to finish it all, we built a RSS feed mixing up the headlines and the resulting verses from the Bible, with the help of RSSWriter.
Very soon we will release the PHP script that we used to create Say4 to the Public Domain. Stay tuned !
What do we mean with this ? Very simple, Say4 gets the latest news from a RSS feed of the BBC. That RSS feed is extracted with the help of Magpierss. Once we have all the information separated, we put the title of each one of the headlines into a variable and perform a search for that headline in a MySQL database that contains all the text of the Bible, each line being one record. What we do is searching for similarities or references to that specific headline in the whole of the Bible.
The results ? Sometimes surprising, sometimes deceiving, sometime intriguing. But we keep coming back to the page looking for what's new there.
And to finish it all, we built a RSS feed mixing up the headlines and the resulting verses from the Bible, with the help of RSSWriter.
Very soon we will release the PHP script that we used to create Say4 to the Public Domain. Stay tuned !
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