Noiseloop
Noiseloop is a news aggregator covering music and culture.
Drupal architecture, Aggregation, Search
Key requirements were:
- To use only standard modules
- To get the site up and running quickly
- For the site to be highly automated and self-managing
- For it to require the minimum editorial resource
It was created with no custom programming. An out-of-the-box preset theme was used (and lightly customised) in order to reduce time to market and test the site concept with minimum investment.
Content aggregation
All content comes from external RSS feeds. These are polled every few minutes and any new stories are imported into the site and published. When stories are saved, they are automatically tagged. A display filter was created in order to remove CSS styling from imported stories in order to maintain the site layout.
Voting
Stories can be voted up or down by each user. They are grouped in batches for each week which are further ordered by voting popularity and number of reads.
Editorial control
AJAX links (viewable only by editors) were created for each story which trigger the promotion and demotion of stories from the front page. This allows an editor to very simply and quickly reorganise front page content by scanning lists of stories.
Hosted faceted search
Search is handled by the Acquia hosted version of Apache Solr faceted search. The site is checked for new stories every few minutes and any found are submitted to the search service for indexing. Site searches bring results from the remote service and can drill down into result sets (as seen in expensive proprietary offerings from companies such as Endeca).
Related articles
The remote search service also returns related articles for a specific story.
Adub is an Acquia partner, providing end-to-end site development services and consulting in:
- Strategy and planning
- Module selection and development
- Scalability and performance tuning
- Migration and upgrades
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Blog
- Building a new Drupal team at Capgemini to work on some exciting projects. Get in touch if you know someone who should be part of that.
- Join us in London at Drupal Focus On Publishers - http://dfpublishers2010.eventbrite.com #dfpublishers2010
- At Brighton #develop conference. Looking at what drupal can bring to games.
- We now have a Drupal Enterprise group on LinkedIn - http://www.linkedin.com/groups?about=&gid=319970
- Attending Drupal for Social Media in London. ROI as the elephant in the room #BtSW
- Added a new presentation to slideshare - Drupal and Web Services - http://www.slideshare.net/Adub/drupal-and-web-services-4557521
- http://bit.ly/bji24d - Talking about Drupal Web Services and enterprise applications at Sun on Wednesday 26th May
- Thanks to everybody who worked so hard to pull it together in two days and Google for hosting #drupalvolcon
- I'm attending DrupalVolCon UK 2010 -- http://drupalvolcon.eventbrite.com #drupalvolcon
- @Dries Blog post: Look.co.uk switches to Drupal; traffic doubles within months http://bit.ly/bsjBfV