UpCurrents

upCurrents is an update aggregator. It aggregates news, tweets, UP-FM audio stream, videos from various trusted sources automatically and feeds them via its website (dilc.info/currents) or mobile app (see download below).

dilc.info/currents

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

• UP Diliman
• UPD OVCRD
• UP System
• DILC and its tweeter feed
• GoogleNews RSS on "University of the Philippines"

Mobile Download

• upCurrents beta (Android)

Features

• updates aggregated from various sources
• updates pushed directly to your mobile phone
• geotagged updates
• quick sharing of updates using Facebook, Twitter or email
• site 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>

Development Team

upCurrents Site (beta)

• Eriel Bondoc
• Glaiza Marie Enriquez
• Erickson Sombillo

upCurrents Mobile

• 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

• internal html to rss conversion
• redaction of ads inserted by commercial parser of html pages
• thumbnail photos for news items
• iOS version

Known Issues

• error in parsing non-rss pages
• unwanted ads from commercial parser of non-rss pages