Thursday, March 13, 2008

Daily Bible Reading Companion

We've recently built a smashup (I think that's the technical term) that combines several types of information feed into a single page. The application reads a database to find a Bible reading for a given day of the year from a SQL Server database hosted on the site, and then queries an external web site via a URL and Querystring for that passage. Depending on copyright rules, the text is displayed in-line or in an IFRAME html element. The page contains links to other days readings, making it ideal for search engine placement, as well as the RSS feed that is made available via the URL bar or an RSS link. The page also contains other RSS feeds from the Daily Audio Bible Forums site, which is a messaging board for people going through this reading plan together.

You can view the application here. We'd be happy to create a reading plan or other similar type of smashup application for your site. Get your creative juices flowing and give us a call!

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