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Newsiversse :: Web Based Feed

Design Progression – Brooks

First Round: Round 2: Round 3: Round 4:

PHP RSS Parsing

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 [...]

Design Progression – Joanna

Design Progression – Randy

1) Let’s Start at the Beginning… Our initial concept was some form of growth, either organic in nature, or more scientific. I went with the latter and tried to visualize nerves and synapses connecting feeds together. Comp v1.0 2) Abstracting a bit After seeing some killer growth stuff by Grant Skinner we explored some different [...]

Design Progression – Matt

This post features the beginnings and current state of my design comps. After many changes and iterations, the team has boiled it down to one final badass-lookin’ comp that’s sure to please.

Check ‘em out…

AS3 and E4X

Hello team… I’ve been going through various sites to get a lead on how to get keywords from our parsed xml data…a lot of sources point me to Ecmascript for XML (EX4)…apparently AS3 is really compatible with EX4 and makes the whole parsing process easier to accomplish versus AS2….to help us developers better understand the [...]

Yahoo BOSS, Twitter, and Google Engines…

News article: http://news.cnet.com/8301-17939_109-10143937-2.html Turns out that Yahoo BOSS (Build your Own Search Service: http://developer.yahoo.com/search/boss/) can team with Google App (http://code.google.com/appengine/) and Twitter to make some seriously fresh news…We should snag/take a look at the Yahoo BOSS as “BOSS gives you access to Yahoo’s investments in crawling and indexing, ranking and relevancy algorithms, and powerful infrastructure” [...]

Flowchart

Flowchart for the interactive and backend processes for the project:

Moodboards

Behold: the visual awesomeness each designer created to show different visual directions for the project. Matt Austin: Joanna Belding: Randy Church: Brooks Eastman

What the hell are these kids doing anyway?

Team IV is a 2009 RIT New Media Team Project Group focusing on Web Feeds, and we are currently in the middle of one of two academic quarters being spent on this project.

We're in the midst of creating an RSS feed based website that includes a mashup with Twitter, a popular social networking and micro-blogging service that allows its users to send and read other users' updates (otherwise known as tweets), which are text-based posts of up to 140 characters in length. Our goal is to create a different kind of news site, where users' tweets are driving the most popular and talked about stories. Apparently, news gets around even faster on Twitter than it does on any other real news or pop-culture site, because people are tweeting their experiences first hand. We're bringing this phenomenon together with CNN, BBC, YouTube, ESPN, and FailBlog, to name a few.

 

Enter: NEWSIVERSSE.

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