Re: Facebook and YouTube updates

On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 9:54 AM, James Cain <[email protected]> wrote:

>
> On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 9:44 AM, Stuart Jarvis <[email protected]>wrote:
>
>> Hey,
>>
>> There seems to be some interest on including our YouTube channel in the
>> updates on our Facebook page, in addition to the Dot stories currently
>> aggregated there (from feedback on Facebook and my blog post)
>>
>
> Absolutely there is! :)
>
>
>> However, Facebook only allows to syndicate one feed. To get around this,
>> I've
>> combined the dot and youtube feeds here:
>> http://test.asinen.org/rss/rss2
>>
>
> Sweet
>
>
>>
>> I'd like you to have a play with it and see if it seems to work ok,
>> particularly after the Dot/YouTube is updated (James/other Youtube people
>> - do
>> you have time to add a video on YouTube to test this? Are there still some
>> Akademy ones to do?)
>>
>>
> I will test after work today. And yea, there are more videos to upload. I
> was holding off only because I'm trying to figure out how to get 2 channel
> audio during transcoding in KDEnlive (any pointers welcome).
>

Just checking up on this.  Did it get tested so Stu can proceed with
implementation?  I don't have any of the Akademy stuff but I do have that
branding talk with Aaron that I could potentially submit if it makes sense
to do so.



>
>
>> The feed combiner does some caching both in fetching the feeds and
>> combining
>> them so there could be some lag (probably shouldn't be much more than
>> 30-40
>> minutes)
>>
>> If it all works ok* and there are no objections then I can syndicate this
>> to
>> facebook.
>>
>
> There are numerous syndication tools available in Youtube as well (Twitter
> integration, for example). Would be cool if, in addition to your good work
> on this, we looked at seeing if there are additional synergies we could
> obtain by automating as many features as possible.  I think it would just be
> a matter of those of us involved in the social media aspects of KDE Promo
> getting together and making sure it is do-able.
>
>
>>
>> It would be easy to add other feeds in future if we wanted.
>>
>
> Can't think of any off-hand, but there probably are additional ones that
> might make sense to add in the future.
>
>
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Stu
>>
>> * This is based on a pre-existing PHP script that uses Magpie for fetching
>> the
>> feeds. I've added caching in the combining of feeds and had to fix it to
>> stop
>> it mangling YouTube urls. In essence, this should work.
>>
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