I would be very curious to record automatically the presence on the
net (links!) for all the contacts in my address book.
I believe that can be programmed easily in VB by calling the Google
API, so could easily be an add-in of Outlook. However, if another
easy technology does it, I am open to it (Access?)
That could be done by calling regularly onto a search
engine(Google?), get all links, notice new ones, and store them in the
contact manager as attribute of the contact (in the journal for
instance). Then it is easy to:
1) display when there is new entry ("you have news about a friend"!)
2) identify the pattern of entry over time ("someone got famous around
that time")
3) figure out who is the network of who by just looking at common
links ("so and so appear on the same page, they must be related"!)
We could also make the data collection more general by scrapping, so
then not being tied to Google APIs. For instance in Perl, all
libraries are already written, but then interfacing with VB is a bit
trickier.
Does anyone have seen anything like that? It is a bit
likegooglealert.com, except that the alert engine is not a service on
a web but running locally on one's machine, it is a recurring task
that store the result on a local database (for instance the address
book in Outlook).
Thanks a lot if you have any suggestion!
Fabrice Cavarretta 5 976
Hi Fabrice,
Is there any reason you send this to the microsoft.dotnet.languages.vb
newsgroup?
Cor I would be very curious to record automatically the presence on the net (links!) for all the contacts in my address book.
I believe that can be programmed easily in VB by calling the Google API, so could easily be an add-in of Outlook. However, if another easy technology does it, I am open to it (Access?)
That could be done by calling regularly onto a search engine(Google?), get all links, notice new ones, and store them in the contact manager as attribute of the contact (in the journal for instance). Then it is easy to:
1) display when there is new entry ("you have news about a friend"!)
2) identify the pattern of entry over time ("someone got famous around that time")
3) figure out who is the network of who by just looking at common links ("so and so appear on the same page, they must be related"!)
We could also make the data collection more general by scrapping, so then not being tied to Google APIs. For instance in Perl, all libraries are already written, but then interfacing with VB is a bit trickier.
Does anyone have seen anything like that? It is a bit likegooglealert.com, except that the alert engine is not a service on a web but running locally on one's machine, it is a recurring task that store the result on a local database (for instance the address book in Outlook).
Thanks a lot if you have any suggestion!
Fabrice Cavarretta
In microsoft.public.fr.vb, fr stands for french...
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Fabrice Cavarretta wrote: I would be very curious to record automatically the presence on the net (links!) for all the contacts in my address book.
I believe that can be programmed easily in VB by calling the Google API, so could easily be an add-in of Outlook. However, if another easy technology does it, I am open to it (Access?)
That could be done by calling regularly onto a search engine(Google?), get all links, notice new ones, and store them in the contact manager as attribute of the contact (in the journal for instance). Then it is easy to:
1) display when there is new entry ("you have news about a friend"!)
2) identify the pattern of entry over time ("someone got famous around that time")
3) figure out who is the network of who by just looking at common links ("so and so appear on the same page, they must be related"!)
We could also make the data collection more general by scrapping, so then not being tied to Google APIs. For instance in Perl, all libraries are already written, but then interfacing with VB is a bit trickier.
Does anyone have seen anything like that? It is a bit likegooglealert.com, except that the alert engine is not a service on a web but running locally on one's machine, it is a recurring task that store the result on a local database (for instance the address book in Outlook).
Thanks a lot if you have any suggestion!
Fabrice Cavarretta
> In microsoft.public.fr.vb, fr stands for french...
Désolé, mais étant français, j'avais publié là aussi par défaut.
J'avais oublié que la norme est peut-être que la langue soit
française...
Sorry, but being French, I naturally posted it there also. Quite
forgot that the working language in that group would be ... French!
Fabrice
"Cor" <no*@non.com> wrote in message Is there any reason you send this to the microsoft.dotnet.languages.vb newsgroup?
Yes: I understood that programming some cool stuff into Outlook should
be done in VB, and even read Sue Mosher book about it. Then, since I
did not dev for years, I did not feel moving forward on my own.
since I find it a cool things to do, and believe it could easily be
done (in VB ! :-), I posted around to see if anyone had played in that
direction lately.
Best to you,
Fabrice
Ok no problemo.
--
Nicolas G.
FAQ VB : http://faq.vb.free.fr
API Guide : http://www.allapi.net
Google Groups : http://groups.google.fr/
MZ-Tools : http://www.mztools.com/
Fabrice Cavarretta wrote: In microsoft.public.fr.vb, fr stands for french...
Désolé, mais étant français, j'avais publié là aussi par défaut. J'avais oublié que la norme est peut-être que la langue soit française...
Sorry, but being French, I naturally posted it there also. Quite forgot that the working language in that group would be ... French!
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