Feed for Thought
Hello!
I just installed an RSS feed into the JumpSocial Calendar. (There was already one on the JumpSocial Blog of course).
Here’s an interesting question. The JumpSocial Calendar is usually rendered for a particular location. For example, if you are in Ottawa, we figure out that you’re in Ottawa (via IP address or Postal Code), then render a calendar for Ottawa.
For the feed, if a Web site is reading it to render content onto the same Web site, we may be able to grab the IP address of the Web site and use the local that we get from it. The difficulty is that many Web sites are hosted very far away from the locale that they are for.
If a user subscribes to the feed in some sort of feed reader, I’m betting we can read the IP address of the user’s internet access and we can probably use that to guess their locale.
Any thoughts?
Darcy