One of our constant challenges here at the trendrr labs is figuring out new and inventive ways of culling metrics out of the sites we track. All to often sites have no feasible way of communicating their community and content statistics. Or if they do it's published in a format that was never intended to be syndicated. Often we end up using api functions that were never meant to provide statistical info. For instance to get a member count we will request all the members info and then count the return size. As you might imagine this approach is very wasteful in terms of overhead for both the publishing site and our systems.
So with this in mind we started working on a xml schema that would allow sites to easily publish metrics about their communities and content. So without further ado we give you our newest open source schema project from team trendrr.
MSS (http://developer.trendrr.com/mss)
We are releasing this schema under
creative commons in hopes that sites out there will pick up on the idea. In the spirit of practicing what we preach, we will be implementing MSS feeds across trendrr in the near future. Check out the schema and a few examples in our
docs section. We will also be expanding the schema docs in the weeks to come.
-Matt
