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Since I started this weblog, a great deal has been happening in the RSS niche. An unbelievable number of great feed mashup tools have been appearing, and most new web services sites try to incorporate some form of RSS import into their feature set.
While this blog was originally to have been about the ongoing development of my webfeedmail service, I’ve had to put that project on the backburner due to time limitations. Instead, for the present, I’ll post the occasional news about RSS, services, and tools. My current favorite feed mashup tool is Yahoo Pipes, and I have a whole slew of how-to screencast videos about Pipes over at Tubetorial. There’ll be more about Pipes and other feed mashup tools at RSS Case Studies and here as well. And at some point, I’ll get the ball rolling on the webfeedmail service, and if I’m as lucky as Randy Charles Morin, some company as big as NBC might buy my site as well.
The beauty of RSS (Really Simple Syndication) is that it is a “pull” technology. That is, subscribers to a webfeed actively subscribe to content, and can unsubscribe at any time. This has a huge benefit over receiving information via email since email is a “push” technology. Information comes to you, sometimes, whether you want it or not.
RSS is very versatile, and there are numerous information-sharing uses for it. Many of those uses are covered at RSS Case Studies. Other uses will be highlighted here as actual services, many for free.
The term “webfeed” is a generic term for an URL that points to a sequence of syndicated content items. Webfeeds usually come in one of three flavours: RSS, Atom, and RDF. RDF , in fact, is actually a version of RSS that was abandoned in terms of development, but is used by some web publishers for legacy reasons. Atom is a newer format that only has functionality in common with RSS. All three formats use XML (eXtensible Markup Language) to describe fields of information.
If you are new to webfeeds, please read my What Are Web Feeds series of articles.
This journal will track development efforts for the WebFeedMail site and our RSS-based services. RSS, or Really Simple Syndication, is a technology that makes it easy for web publishers to syndicate and distribute their content. It also makes it easy for people to browse a great deal of content, across multiple websites, easily and quickly.
This site should be used in tandem with two MarketingStudies.net weblogs: RSS Diary and RSS Case Studies Journal. The latter site will occasional present content syndication case studies. Any programming code made available for a case study will be presented here in this journal.
As well, WebFeedMail will be offering a number of RSS-based services. Some will be free, others will be made available on a monthly subscription or pay-per-use basis. Information about these services will be documented in this journal.
Any general discussions about RSS and content syndication will be at the MarketingStudies.net weblogs.
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