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Transcript of RSS
Aims
• Knowing how RSS works
• Recognising feed presence in web sites
• Providing contents using RSS
• Using a RSS reader
• registering in an online reader
• subscribing to interesting feeds
• feeds managing
more than 70 mill blogs
more than 1.3 mill posts per day
more than 54.000 posts per hour
and postcasts, photograhpies, videos...
(Octavio Rojas. Web 2.0. Manual (no oficial) de uso)
What is RSS?
• Really Simple Syndication
• Subscription to dynamic contents
• Push technology:information came to us
How does it work?
• When an article is published, the RSS captures the changes
• Periodically, a reader checks for updates in the subscribed feeds
RSS in plain english
RSS 2.0 labels<rss>
<channel><title>Name of the site</title><link>web address</link><description>Short description</description><item><title>Post title</title><link>Post URL</link><description>Post contents</description>
</item></channel>
</rss>
RSS Readers
• Programs to read feeds
• On-line: using a browser
• Clients: locally installed
• Extensions for browsers or e-mail clients
Additional services
• Clipping
• to save favourite annotations
• Playlist
• summary of favourite feeds
• Sharing subscriptions: blogroll
• Searching