NewsCloud Platform Overview
From Newscloud
The NewsCloud open source media platform is a PHP, MySQL code base. NewsCloud consists of a number of valuable technologies:
- Page request class using mod_rewrite
- Database class for scaling and portability, includes a small template engine and paging support as well
- Custom integration with WordPress MU
- REST-based Web Services API
- PEAR is used for a few features
- Prototype and Scriptaculous are used for interactive AJAX user interface features
- Smarty is used for customizing pages in the site via templates
- User management and email management
- Integration with Textile
- Integration with Plaxo-address book importer
- Automated image retrieval and slideshow
- Zip code database and distance calculations
- Component caching for performance
- CRON-driven services manager
Our content management system includes a number of social network features:
- Story presentation
- Story ranking
- Post a story
- Comments engine with live preview
- Journals (folders for reader submissions and presentation)
- Groups aka Clouds (this area is expanding rapidly)
- RSS Feed Reader
- Tag engine and tag cloud generation
- Email this
- Blog this integration with TypePad, LiveJournal, Blogger and WordPress
- Facebook NewsCloud Application
- Google Ad Sense API integration
These features are further supported with:
- Smarty Template management
- Statistic engine for monitoring statistics more fine-grained than Google Analytics
- Google SiteMaps generation
- Ad rotator engine
- RSS Feed Generation, Feed Reading via Magpie and Javascript generation of feeds
- TypePad Widget support
- FAQ engine
To support developers, we have:
