RSS

Living in aWeb 2.0 World

What Web 2.0 companies do you recognize?

What are their products?

XML Concepts eXtensible Markup

Language XML is designed to

describe data Unlike HTML, XML tags

are not predefined XML is structured text

that represents information

You might display XML data using HTML

Rich Site Summary/Really Simple Syndication

XML Format for syndicating content (not presentation)

Subscribers sign up to receive the feed

Aggregators check RSS feeds and display new items from them so you don’t have to

Integrated in Firefox, IE 7

NPR News RSS Feed

XML for the NPR News RSS Feed

Hint: Use Notepad++ instead of Notepad!

Subscribe to RSS Feeds Google News Search

http://news.google.com/news?q=searchterm&output=rss Wordpress Blogs:

http://www.bizu.dreamhosters.com/cs299/?feed=rss2

Firefox Live Bookmarks

Google Reader

OPML: List of RSS Feeds

Import into Google Reader

Podcasting 2001 – Dave Winer syndicates

a Greatful Dead song on his web log

2004 - Podcasting emerges as a mainstream RSS application

2005 - Podcasting is Word of the Year (Oxford)

2006 - Everybody’s doing it

Podcasts are RSS feeds with enclosures.

You don’t need an iPod to subscribe to podcasts

You can subscribe or create podcasts using your PC

Find an aggregator and Media Player (or subscribe in iTunes)