Baseball News Aggregator

Closed Posted Mar 12, 2007 Paid on delivery
Closed Paid on delivery

We’re looking for the front-end and back-end component of a baseball news aggregator that will crawl various web sites and group related news stories in a hierarchical structure and tag stories relating to subject.

## Deliverables

Engineering Requirements (Back End): - Aggregator preferably coded in VB.NET, but not an absolute necessity. - Must use MySQL database version 4.1 and be compatible with version 5.0 Engineer Requirements (Front End): - Must be an ASP.NET / VB.NET user control no wider than 750 pixels. Code-behind file is preferable. - Must be able to use query strings to filter by tag. Examples of Current Aggregators: [url removed, login to view] - We’re really looking for a ballbug clone except with better player tagging and more than one day viewable at a time. - Note how it is hierarchical in nature starting with the head story and then showing discussions in various blogs, and related news stories. [url removed, login to view] - Blog “influence?? is a nice feature that ranks blogs based on how often they are linked to. Back End Requirements: - Must be able to add/delete/re-rank various websites manually. Front End Requirements: - Anonymous cookie based thumbs-up/thumbs-down rating system for individual stories. - Stories ranked by date, hierarchy and popularity. Initial Sites to Choose: - Choose the top 200 blogs on [url removed, login to view] - [url removed, login to view], [url removed, login to view], [url removed, login to view], [url removed, login to view], [url removed, login to view], [url removed, login to view], baseballamerica.com. - Major and local newspapers. Demo: - I’d like to see a working demo with at least 250 sites worth of baseball news aggregated.

## Platform

Engineering Requirements (Back End): - Aggregator preferably coded in VB.NET, but not an absolute necessity. - Must use MySQL database version 4.1 and be compatible with version 5.0 Engineer Requirements (Front End): - Must be an ASP.NET / VB.NET user control no wider than 750 pixels. Code-behind file is preferable.

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Project ID: #2877341

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