I was thinking that it'd be really cool to see more interactivity between the community and the gameworld. I see that the official site can pull some data off the server and publish it to a webpage, what if the raw data behind that information was available to all?

Example 1 - Trader Feeds:
This could conceivably draw off the same data that creates the "Items In Demand" news stories for each station. Instead of just putting it ingame, place it onto a webpage, or better yet, into an RSS feed, updated every half-hour (but every 10 minutes would be better). Putting this into RSS would allow guilds to construct pages that feed off this data for their members' benefit.

Example 2 - Bounty Feed:
Y'know the drill. All that bounty hunting crap, top bounties, claimed bounties, etc. on a separate feed, updated hourly.

Other things this could be used for:
Racing Leaderboards (daily)
Mining Leaderboards (daily, in thousands of tons)
Duelling Leaderboards (daily)

Hell, spool off the last 100 lines of the most popular chat channels into feeds. The most important thing would be to make all of the data easily machine-readable, so that various homebrew apps could easily take advantage of the proffered data.

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Awesome idea ctishman. I'm totally in.

P.S. Don't forget the pirating feed!

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I'd like to use the racing feeds. I have a website idea.

That would be great. :) We could then keep upto date with who is great at wahtever :)

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