Looking at Feeds and how to potentially get content onto our application. The google Feed API will allow us to get article titles and heading that people can link out to from load and loads of different sites.
https://developers.google.com/feed/?hl=en (Google Feed API documentation)
http://www.sitepoint.com/no-stress-rss-with-the-google-feed-api/ (Tutorial for Google Feed Set up)
If we want someone to stay on our application then we will need to use a News networks API to actually bring their full content onto our site (MAYBE) rather than send them off. This is probably the better situation as with an API we can actually query and specify which information we want to receive back.
Then users can read the content on our application and we can score them based on the length of the article and categorize their expert level based on the query term.
Alternatively we may need to use a combination of the two, so that people can easily see available articles. The New York times API provides both lead paragraph and a word count, so we could give an estimated read time and xp score, then when they click off we give them the xp. But they cant earn anymore until the time expires?
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