[Kde-pim] [kdepim-users] ratings on Akgregator

[John LoGioco]

Hi Frank, I understand your limited time for development.  Really the
one aspect of what we are doing that separates us from all the other
*widgets* out there is that we are networking the ratings and as such
will be adding *network* recommendations.  This is an area where you can
choose to participate in a revenue share program in the future.  That
said we would love to work with you and add your reader into the  mix if
you want to help us get through these beginning steps.

Thanks,
John

-----Original Message-----
From: Ori Lahav 
Sent: Monday, October 15, 2007 5:11 PM
To: Frank Osterfeld
Cc: John LoGioco; kde-pim at kde.org
Subject: RE: [Kde-pim] [kdepim-users] ratings on Akgregator

Thanks Frank.
About the user ID's - yes you are right and we know this, however having
the burden of "another" service signup is something we want to avoid
even in the price of multiple machines use case of the *minority* of the
users.
In the future we plan to enable API for the Partner's users to Attach
(alias) their specific partner ID to a single outbrain ID and get their
all "accounts" ratings united. 

The security issue is a real matter that really demand farther
implementation of the widget on your side.
However, usually this security issue regards running applications from
external (from the web) executable code (like Javascript).

One thing I think you can do, and was done by one of our partners, was
to host the Javascript locally along with the installation. This will
probably save a lot of the implementation and solve the security issue.

One downside it has is our ability to maintain the code and add features
on the fly.

About the availability to implement...
That's your call, we are here to assist if you have questions.

Ori 

-----Original Message-----
From: Frank Osterfeld [mailto:frank.osterfeld at gmx.de] 
Sent: Monday, October 15, 2007 8:53 PM
To: Ori Lahav
Cc: John LoGioco; kde-pim at kde.org
Subject: Re: [Kde-pim] [kdepim-users] ratings on Akgregator

Hi Ori,

> Here are some ideas about how to do it:
> - Simple 'date' number that will be accurate by the millisecond.
> - hash of mac address and date.

That ID is used to identify the user on your side, so the user might
want to 
use the same ID on multiple machines, right (to receive personal
suggestions 
on all machines)? Then it should be configurable by the user I guess,
with 
the generated id as default?

>
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
> <!-- Outbrain rater widget Tag start -->
> <SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JavaScript">
> 	var  OB_user = "ob_john";
> 	var OutbrainPermaLink =
> "http://blog.outbrain.com/2007/07/testing-the-rat.html"
> 	var OB_partnerKey = "AYQHSUWJ8576";
> 	var OB_partnerName = "AYQHSUWJ8576
> 	var OB_testMode = true;
> </SCRIPT>
> <script src='http://widgets.outbrain.com/OutbrainPartnerRater.js'
> type='text/javascript'></script>
> <!-- Outbrain rater widget Tag end -->

JavaScript is currently disabled in the preview pane, for security
reasons (as 
requested by the KDE security team). But this could probably also be
done via 
an API call sent from some standard widget?

> That's about it.
> Let me know if you need more assistance.

Thanks for your input! 
Just to make it clear, I don't see anyone in our team implementing this
too 
soon. Not because I wouldn't like it, but because feature development in

Akregator is basically only me, with nearly no time for the project and
a 
bunch of higher priority-items on the TODO list. 
I accept patches though ;) (preferably with a generic rating interface
and a 
separate Outbrain implementation)

Best Regards,

Frank
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