FeedMalaya is a social blog aggregator that pull out the best content from Malaysian bloggers was launched on June 7th, 2009 developed by Bat InfoMalaya and myself.
Technology Behind FeedMalaya?
The development period only took us 9 days from first draft to launch using CodeIgniter (with enhancement using Ext.CodeIgniter), SimplePie, jQuery, Savvy.UI, FlexiGrid for jQuery and Facebook Connect for CodeIgniter.
Why Another Blog Aggregator?
Firstly, I can’t find anything good aggregator I can follow mainly for local content. Well nothing against the other Blog Aggregator or Social Bookmarking currently available or being developed at the moment but this is my personal point of view and I personally think there are others who feel the same way as me.
How do FeedMalaya Grab Fresh Content?
Currently we fetch a blog or website every minute using RSS/ATOM feed using SimplePie and PHP CLI. This method is suitable since we haven’t reach a bottleneck due to the numbers of site in queeue. However we do understand that one day we have to consider more advanced algorithm when the it became a requirement.
OpenID was the first option for FeedMalaya, why did you change it to Facebook Connect?
We did try OpenID for CodeIgniter find the documentation and implementation not as friendly as we consider it to be so we look for alternative. Here some of the key factor why Facebook Connect become our choice:-
- High number of Malaysian user who already have a Facebook account.
- Single vendor, single documentation and single achitecture.
- Low amount of time and effort to implement the integration.
Any last word?
Visit and join us at FeedMalaya or FeedMalaya Mobile. The development still continue while we serve you fresh content.
How did you make the “Facebook Connect” function? Does it a fresh coding or any plugin?
Combination.