ImagineRIT was a great success! (click for video)

Team IV had a blast presenting Newsiversse at this year’s ImagineRIT! Our “spacey” room was filled with inquisitive people who were intensely interested in the project. Check out the video here: Newsiversse @ ImagineRIT 2009.

After dealing a lot with trying to get flash to parse the RSS feeds it has become apparent that PHP can do a lot of the work with a lot less strain on the server and a lot quicker and easier. I have been working on a simple parser that takes the twitter feeds and takes out the content and strips the HTML tags from the content. This leaves only the pure text of the comment without any of the code.