RSS and Atom are specifications that give users the power tosubscribe to information they want to receive and give contentdevelopers tools to provide continuous subscriptions to willingrecipients in a spam-free setting. RSS and Atom are the technicalpower behind the growing millions of blogs on the Web. Blogs changethe Web from a set of static pages or sites requiring programmingexpertise to update to an ever changing, constantly updatedlandscape that anyone can contribute to. RSS and Atom syndicationprovides users an easy way to track new information on as many Websites as they want. This book offers you insight to understandingthe issues facing the user community so you can meet users' needsby writing software and Web sites using RSS and Atom feeds.
Beginning with an introduction to all the current and comingversions of RSS and Atom, you'll go step by step through theprocess of producing, aggregating, and storing information feeds.When you're finished, you'll be able to produce client software andWeb sites that create, manipulate, aggregate, and displayinformation feeds effectively.
"This book is full of practical advice and tips for consuming,producing, and manipulating information feeds. I only wish I had abook like this when I started writing RSS Bandit." - Dare Obasanjo,RSS Bandit creator: http://www.rssbandit.org/
Danny Ayers
Computer Science Informatik Programmierung (EDV) Web Site Development Web-Entwicklung Website