Salesforce Community News, Piping Hot
Apr 10, 2007I put together a Yahoo! Pipe which lets you find out what's being said about a particular term within the Salesforce Community.
You can see it at work at the Salesforce Community Search page on Yahoo! Pipes. You can also copy it and make improvements to it.
The main difference between it, and the Google powered community search on this site, is that these results are weighed for recency, not relevancy.
It searches the discussion forums, the IdeaExchange, the salesforce.com blogs the internet in general and the blogosphere in particular, and then tries to create a result which produces the most recent things said about the term you're searching for. The output is available as an RSS/Atom feed, so you can subscribe to it, and a JSON object, so that you can mash it up. And for those of you who get a laugh out of such things, here's the ugly, messy underbelly:
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I do get a kick out of such things! I especially like the schematic approach to relaying information as I am an extremely visual learner. I think th tool you created will be very usefull, and I can apply the concept to tracking other results from my blog, and my company website. Thanks!
Posted by: Brett | May 05, 2007 at 08:27 PM
Glad you found it useful Brett!
Posted by: Kingsley | May 25, 2007 at 04:45 PM