Comments on: Subscribe To Orkut Communities & Topics now! http://blog.orkutfeeds.com/2008/03/01/orkutfeeds-supports-orkut-communities-topics-feeds-now/ Just another weblog Thu, 22 Jul 2010 07:17:18 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Rahul Bansal http://blog.orkutfeeds.com/2008/03/01/orkutfeeds-supports-orkut-communities-topics-feeds-now/#comment-13 Rahul Bansal Fri, 28 Mar 2008 08:54:40 +0000 http://www.orkutfeeds.com/blog/2008/03/01/orkutfeeds-supports-orkut-communities-topics-feeds-now/#comment-13 <b>@Garcia</b> I have analyzed complexity of feature you want. Ya it will be nice feature but we need to discuss it first! I guess you just want FriendLists in RSS format so that if new friends get added you will receive update in feed reader. As of now you get alerts whenever someone joins your friendlist so this feature may be useful to track other friendlist. In that case, there are two problems - first is privacy issue and second is cost. As friend list is not updated everyday, we will end up wasting lots of bandwidth. Also friendlist is generated randomly so that for each uid, I have to maintain a copy of friend-list here at orkutfeeds server which will be used to crosscheck with new friend-list. There may me more probs... If you have any suggestion or any correction in my logic, please feel free to reply! :-) @Garcia
I have analyzed complexity of feature you want. Ya it will be nice feature but we need to discuss it first!
I guess you just want FriendLists in RSS format so that if new friends get added you will receive update in feed reader.
As of now you get alerts whenever someone joins your friendlist so this feature may be useful to track other friendlist.
In that case, there are two problems – first is privacy issue and second is cost.
As friend list is not updated everyday, we will end up wasting lots of bandwidth.
Also friendlist is generated randomly so that for each uid, I have to maintain a copy of friend-list here at orkutfeeds server which will be used to crosscheck with new friend-list.
There may me more probs…
If you have any suggestion or any correction in my logic, please feel free to reply! :-)

]]> By: Garcia http://blog.orkutfeeds.com/2008/03/01/orkutfeeds-supports-orkut-communities-topics-feeds-now/#comment-12 Garcia Wed, 19 Mar 2008 19:51:50 +0000 http://www.orkutfeeds.com/blog/2008/03/01/orkutfeeds-supports-orkut-communities-topics-feeds-now/#comment-12 Hi Guys, Can you add another feed that lists all the friends of a particular UID. Basically, we should be able to put in a url like, http://www.orkut.com/FriendsList.aspx?uid=17623201451400091638 and get the complete list of friends as an RSS feed. If it is feasible, please implement it, it wud definitely add more value to this service. Regards Garcia Hi Guys,

Can you add another feed that lists all the friends of a particular UID. Basically, we should be able to put in a url like, http://www.orkut.com/FriendsList.aspx?uid=17623201451400091638 and get the complete list of friends as an RSS feed. If it is feasible, please implement it, it wud definitely add more value to this service.

Regards
Garcia

]]> By: Rahul Bansal http://blog.orkutfeeds.com/2008/03/01/orkutfeeds-supports-orkut-communities-topics-feeds-now/#comment-11 Rahul Bansal Thu, 06 Mar 2008 10:48:10 +0000 http://www.orkutfeeds.com/blog/2008/03/01/orkutfeeds-supports-orkut-communities-topics-feeds-now/#comment-11 <b>@Pratham</b> First sorry for late replay buddy! :-( Now on date mentioned by you things got messed here while upgrading orkutfeeds for community & topic feed support! Also after reading ur comment I have been through Dreamhosts TOS closely and I don't think they will have any problem. Technically all I am making is a CURL call and that should be fine I guess as Dreamhost documented it in their official wiki docs. There is no indexing kinda stuff here. Also that may not make sense as contents of scrapbooks n communities are always changing... :-) Rest service is fine now! I cant guarantee how long it will run smoothly... All I can say it will downgrade gracefully if something goes wrong and will come back automatically once all goes well! :-) @Pratham
First sorry for late replay buddy! :-(
Now on date mentioned by you things got messed here while upgrading orkutfeeds for community & topic feed support!
Also after reading ur comment I have been through Dreamhosts TOS closely and I don’t think they will have any problem.

Technically all I am making is a CURL call and that should be fine I guess as Dreamhost documented it in their official wiki docs.
There is no indexing kinda stuff here. Also that may not make sense as contents of scrapbooks n communities are always changing… :-)

Rest service is fine now! I cant guarantee how long it will run smoothly… All I can say it will downgrade gracefully if something goes wrong and will come back automatically once all goes well! :-)

]]> By: Pratham http://blog.orkutfeeds.com/2008/03/01/orkutfeeds-supports-orkut-communities-topics-feeds-now/#comment-10 Pratham Sun, 02 Mar 2008 17:08:31 +0000 http://www.orkutfeeds.com/blog/2008/03/01/orkutfeeds-supports-orkut-communities-topics-feeds-now/#comment-10 All scrap feeds seem to be empty. They were working till yesterday. BTW Does the Dreamhost TOS allow such bots ? All scrap feeds seem to be empty.
They were working till yesterday.
BTW Does the Dreamhost TOS allow such bots ?

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