news-feed

facebook application: how to put html code like 'a href' inside news feed content? (After the newest api update)

After the newest Facebook update for publishing news feed, it seems that it doesn't support html code (like a href) inside the new feed content anymore But I still see feeds with click-able link inside the content, how to do that? below are the images of the feeds that have link inside the feed content ...

Facebook news feeds from a specific date and time

Hi, is there a possibility on facebook to show only the news from a specific date or time without clicking more times on the "older posts" link on the bottom of the page? For example, I found an interesting article yesterday, but I didn't have time to read it. Today I can't find it, because there are thousands of posts since then. May...

Publish news feed through cron job

Hello, It is possible to publish news feed on user's wall through a cron job, if yes then how, what does facebook offer to do that? ...

Infrastructure for a "news-feed"

I'd like to offer a news-feed like feature for users of our website. When the user logs in, he is shown a list of the latest updates across various areas of the site. I'm afraid that this is going to be difficult to scale. What are some networking / database topologies that can support a scalable infrastructure without having lots o...

PHP News Feed Database & Design

I'm designing a News Feed system using PHP/MySQL similar to facebook's. I have asked a similar question before but now I've changed the design and I'm looking for feedback. Example News: User_A commented on User_B's new album. "Hey man nice pictures!" User_B added a new Photo to [his/her] profile. [show photo thu...

complex group by mysql query

I have a table with the following rows: id. user_id, type - link 1. 555, image - http://1 2. 555, image - http://2 3. 654, image - http://3 4. 245, video - http://.. 5. 555, image - http://.. 6. 878, text - http://.. I want to group the type (image) by date, so they show as single row. In this example, the first two images ...

Are there any websites providing free news, weather, photos APIs for using this data commercially

I want to build a service which needs to get this data from some source for further analysis. Does Google, Yahoo or someone else provides free access to this data for use in other websites using some API. I think Twitter does something like this for their data although they enforce some limits on this. The data I need is mostly for US an...

Building a news feed for my Rails site. Any pointers?

I have a Rails site. I want to create a news feed. Does anyone have any pointers/advice/caution with this? What are some common schemas? We're using ActiveRecord+MySQL (at least for now), should that be sufficient, or is NoSQL the way to go? ...

Dynamically adding news to feed

Hi everyone, I'm running a Wordpress website and I have a <marquee> on the front page that runs the news. Is it possible to have it dynamically generate the news? What do I mean by that? Would it be possible to make it so that whenever a new post is made with a category of "News", it will automatically be fed into the <marquee> on the...