How is this done??

How to make something like www.popurls.com ?
I think its called a mashup ?

Any tips appreciated!!

 

First of all, its a much awesome website. I loved it. Its very easy to code such website. Create your RSS parser, pull feeds from famous sites like Digg and del.ico.us etc and display them after enhancing with css, xhtml and javascript over your website.

 

yup, it's all about parsing other site's RSS feeds. When you got that done, your site is complete managed by other people

 

I have also make such a website that pull tutorials from other tutorial website.
For practice you can see my code here
http://www.tutorialsgarden.com/developers/apps/readymadeapp/

 

thanks for opening this thread (it's my site)
as you said before it's pretty easy to do it but it takes a lot of tedious work to tweak certain peculiarities of the included sites. besides that popurls has grown to a quite strong brand among the community so it's a bit more than just a platform to aggregate the aggregators

 

Hey tomatic's, I loved your website. A very nice and clean interface. I want to exchange links with you if you are interested, please PM me your traffic details.

 

may i ask how much it would cost to have just the shell (no graphics/design) work of an rss aggregate website would cost? any ballpark figures?
thanks.

 

A fair price would be $50-$75. It would take a couple hours probably. If the programmer was already familiar with an RSS-parsing script it would take 30 minutes.

It's done in 2 steps:

1. backend: A script that runs regularly (like only once per hour) to grab the RSS feeds from all these sources and puts them into a database.
2. frontend: Take the latest rows from the database and display them on the front page.

 

its definately a cool site - and i've bumped into it several times from elsewhere. I was more shocked with how few ads there were on- which is nice or a change.

 

hey tomatic just wanted to say i loved the site, great work.

 

Found a clone - http://gossipurls.com

Anyone find an online tutorial?

 

sem-antics, any luck finding a script?

 

I'm not sure I'd consider that a mash-up. Parsing RSS is very 2.0ish, but a mash-up??? Usually mash-ups refer to sites that are using true APIs together in unique ways. For example, we're using Amazon API, eBay API and Google Maps together on our retail site... We do some RSS processing as well, but don't really consider that part of the mash-up.. Maybe I'm too narrow in my defintion.

See www.programmableweb.com for a complete list of mash-ups. They have them nicely organized by type and API that being used...