NewsTopica

Well, it's official! I'm excited to announce the immediate release of NewsTopica. For those of you familiar with PHP Link Directory, this script uses the same engine, but acts as a news aggregator.

Here is the basic pitch:

Using the powerful engine of PHP Link Directory, NewsTopica brings a whole new concept, allowing you to create your own news site similar to Google News or Topix.net.

Create Categories - you can create categories for news. You may import multiple feeds into one category.

Import Feeds - Feeds are imported, and sorted by age. The more recent news appears first.

Front Page - For each category, you can decide if you want stories to appear on the first page (or not), and decide how many.

Setup Cron - You can setup a cron to import news stories as often as you like. Probably once per hour will be sufficient.

Great for Niche Sites - Let's suppose you want to create a news site for your niche. For example, you could create a news site about Baseball, and then import RSS feeds for each team in the league.

Create a large, searcheable site - Over time, your site will be enormous, with huge stores of information that is all searcheable.

Search Engine Friendly - Using mod_rewrite, category URLs should be spidered well by search engines.

Linkable Search Results - Just like Topix.net, you can link to search results. For example, here is a link to Patrick Fitzgerald.


Speaking of Patrick Fitzgerald, I just wanted to say:
Go Patrick!
Go Patrick!
Go Patrick!
Go Patrick!
Go Patrick!
Go Patrick!
Go Patrick!