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Search for convenient platforms for automatic distribution of useful information.

There is a database that is frequently updated and useful to the residents of our million-plus city.
She needs a bunch of people.

It is necessary to make it so that there are many convenient ways of mass access to it.

The database is updated once a week and has about 1600 unique short entries (up to 300 letters) with a title up to 60 letters.
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What we have in 2010 in RuNet mass access? That's right, blogs, social networks, twitter and other stuff. I wanted with a minimum of effort to make the maximum result.
I'll tell you how it was done. It turned out not all and not very well, so help is welcome.


So, the ultimate goal is to make the data available, the maximum program:
- on a separate site
- blog with RSS export
- on twitter (ribbon header + short link)
- in all domestic and not only social networks / engines that are ready to take data from the outside and show it at home (we are not spammers, we act within the framework of the standard capabilities of the systems)
- via SMS, ICQ, Jabber bots, which you can ask questions and receive answers

Additional requirements:
- the interface of the site where messages are read (for example, after clicking on a link) should be very simple and Russian-speaking
- it is necessary that the solution allows you to sort content by rubrics and use familiar navigation solutions in the form of tags and an archive by calendar

Attempt 1. XML -> parser -> email -> Blogspot.com -> Twitter

Minuses:
- blogspot.com (read Google) does not want to receive via email more than 48 entries per day. I did not identify the exact number, but rather quickly it stops posting. Google has no desire to accept so much data, which is understandable.
- blogspot.com does not support tagging blog posts by sending mail

Pros:
- nice interface, broadcast in twitter

Attempt 2 . XML -> parser -> email -> posterous.com-> everywhere
Here it is, it is “everywhere”
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Very pleased with the posterous.com service
Simplest in use, powerful in functions, accepting tags and files, publishing everything without limitations and translating into 1000 and 1 system. OK!

Only one minus:
- English interface. Target audience of information - people from 30 and far from IT

Unfortunately, no system was found that allows you to organize SMS, icq-, jabber-bot automatically.

It only remains nasty and time consuming
Attempt 3 . Sit down and code / compile everything
1. Put WordPress and another platform on hosting
2. Write import posts
3. Using the systems API to transfer content to them (a part, for example twitter, can be easily configured to automatically take content, but this is not a universal solution)
4. Write bots as separate applications (you may be able to place them on the same hosting and use the same database.

It is possible to write / collect all this in a few days, but, frankly, it does not leave the sense of the invention of the bicycle.

Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/96030/


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