UpCurrents

From Iskomunidad

upCurrents is a personal updater for things UP (University of the Philippines). It gathers UP-related news, updates, RSS feeds, videos, event calendars (music, sports, arts, academic). upCurrents also plays UP-FM, an online music radio of the university.

dilc.info/currents

upCurrents now collects updates every 15 minutes from the following sites:


Many UP sites should be included but the challenge is that they're not RSS-ready.




Mobile Download






Features

Both upCurrents site and mobile app

  • updates aggregated from various official sources

upCurrents Site only

  • geotagged updates
  • quick sharing of updates using Facebook, Twitter or email
  • content embedding using the ff html codes that you can cut and paste into your site:

<div style="width:300px; font-family:'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height:20px"> <div style="background-color:#333; padding:0px 5px; font-weight:bold"> <div style="color:#fff; font-size:14px; line-height:25px;"> <a href="http://dilc.upd.edu.ph/upcurrents/?q=feeds" style="color:#fff;text-decoration:none;" class="active">Latest news</a></div> <div style="font-size:11px; color:#ccc">from upCurrents beta</div> </div> <script type="text/javascript"> widgetContext = { "url": "http://dilc.upd.edu.ph/upcurrents/?q=widget/feeds", "width": 300, "height": 300, "widgetid": "web_widget_iframe_5cb9a84e5a871a520fc525708eaa623e" }; </script> <div id="web_widget_iframe_5cb9a84e5a871a520fc525708eaa623e"></div> <script src="http://dilc.upd.edu.ph/upcurrents/profiles/managingnews/modules/contrib/web_widgets/iframe/web_widgets_iframe.js"></script> <div style="font-size: 10px;">More news from <a href="http://dilc.upd.edu.ph/upcurrents/">upCurrents beta</a>.</div></div>




upCurrents Mobile only

  • updates pushed directly to your mobile phone
  • plays UP-FM
  • search UP sites
  • plays UP videos




Development Team

upCurrents Site (beta)

  • Eriel Bondoc
  • Glaiza Marie Enriquez
  • Erickson Sombillo


upCurrents Mobile

  • Darwin Gonzales


  • Janice Cereno
  • Mary Kristine Flores
  • Febbie Ann Navis


Project Management

  • Cristina Dalupan





Feedback

  • Comments, suggestions are most welcome. Email them to dilc@dilc.upd.edu.ph





To Do

  • Calendar (sports and others)
  • Events (via iskwiki)
  • internal html to rss conversion
  • thumbnail photos for news items
  • iOS version
  • campus-specific, status-specific (student, faculty, staff, alumni, parents) initial setup






Known Issues

  • error in parsing some non-rss pages
  • impartial fetch of some non-rss pages