Beta 3.4 on live, with spiders, coffee breaks and Amazon S3

The latest two weeks have been really fun. We enjoyed testing new services integration, new improvements and deploying new features brainstormed with some of our users.

Weird thing is that, the more we deploy new features, the more our task list becomes bigger and bigger – new ideas come out everyday and we are proud to say that we are still at the beginning.

Now, let’s talk about what is new in this release (Beta 3.4). Some of the features have been tested in the latest 2 weeks and other ones have just been deployed few hours ago:

• Organized news: few crazy spiders are currently crawling hundreds of RSS feeds from the most popular online news magazine to build up automatically sets of links for every popular news. Every set of links is supposed to contain different perspectives and not links to same articles / sources. Every spider has a Twitter profile that you can follow. The spiders are:
  • worldNews (Twitter: bestWorldNews): organized world news
  • sportNews (Twitter: bestSportNews): organized sport news
  • techNews (Twitter: bestTechNews): organized sci-tech news
  • businessNews (Twitter: bestMoneyNews): organized business news
  • entertainmentNews (Twitter: bestGossipNews): organized entertainment & gossip news
  • healthNews (Twitter: bestHealthNews): organized health news
• Coffee Break area (link): fancy a coffee break? Come here and get up to date with the latest and most popular web, world, sport, business, tech, health news
  

  Coffee Break

• Improved user’s public profile:
  

  User

• For every link to a Wikipedia page, the first paragraphs will be automatically retrieved and shown in the multimedia page:
  

  Wikipedia first paragraphs

• Every website with a specified description (in the meta tags) will be displayed with a “?” icon that will show it when the pointer will roll over it:
  

  Website descriptions

• In the set of links modify page the first line of the description will be shown for each element (expandible)
• Improved Firefox Extension (Agglomerator) RSS Feed imports landing page:
  

  Landing Page

• Amazon S3 integration: all the thumbnails and the images are now stored on Amazon S3 servers, with big improvements of performance, reliability and scalability.

Enjoy it

Enrico Foschi
Agglom.com Program Manager