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Full Source To Instant RSS Portals Using Django

by Paul Kenjora on February 5th, 2008

My favorite Django project, Arkayne, has undergone another major enhancement. We are now offering full source code for instant RSS portals. The open source portals allow anyone to set up a site that consumes any RSS feed and produces lists of related articles. The portal is a modified reader that interfaces with the Arkayne API to produce a clean list of articles and related links. Any page running the Arkayne Widget is automatically scanned as a potential candiadte for a link.

Existing RSS Portals

We are currently running three such portals for:

Portal Source Code

Each of the sites above was created using the source code available at the Arkayne Portal Download page.

Possibilities

We are planning on adding a feature that lets users link their own pages to the portals. Look for a realease in the next few weeks along these lines. The source is completely open: Arkayne Portal Source. Send us your portals, we’d love to feature more or better ones on the portal page.

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  • Good point. I'll throw something official together later today.

    In the mean time maybe this will help:

    Arkayne is a service that takes any two pages on the web and compares them for similarity. We break down each page into a math model that results in a consistent and reproducible similarity score. The score is normalized 0% - 100%

    This allows us to provide several services:

    1. A widget that will submit your page to Arkayne and automatically discover similar posts to be displayed on your page.

    2. An API that allows you to submit any page or 2 pages and get back either a list of similar links or a similarity score.

    3. The portal source code that takes RSS feeds mashes them with the Arkayne API and produces related links.

    4. Allow any two profiled pages to be linked by anyone using the featured pages list. Simply click Copy and Paste on any two page profiles. Arkayne takes care of assigning and ranking by similarity score to mitigate spamming.

    So overall Arkayne consistently measures similarity of pages. We created a website, a widget, an API, and now a portal system around the core functionality.
  • No offense meant by this, but Arkayne has been brought up a few times here on this blog, but I still don't think I'm entirely sure what it is. If I don't "get it", maybe others don't either. Maybe a summary post is in order?
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