Results tagged “XML Syndication”
FeedDemon and NetNewsWire are free from NewsGator
The good folks over at NewsGator have just announced that their really awesome feed readers are now free for personal use. Take a look at the list of products, and you'll see some of the best software that's you can...
Get Burned, For Free!
Our friends over at FeedBurner, who sold out to joined the team at Google recently have just announced that pro-level stats and custom domains are now free. Two of their best paid features, Stats PRO and MyBrand, which lets you...
Six Apart Podcast: Web 2.0, Widgets Live and Business Blogging Seminar
Ding, Dong! Hey, who’s at the door? It’s a podcast! Come on in. It has been a very busy week at Six Apart with tons and tons of announcements. We were at the Web 2.0 conference and Widgets Live. We...
Introducing the Open Media Profile
Today, we’re happy to introduce the Open Media Profile. Just looking for highlights? Here you go: Open Media Profile is an OpenSearch profile based on Media RSS. Vox will support Open Media Profile as well as GData API It’s pretty...
Okay, Atom's Ready
For the (many) people who've been saying "let me know when it's done" in regard to Atom, there's good news: XML.com: Catching Up with the Atom Publishing Protocol is Joe Gregorio's primer now that Atom is an IETF standard. Want...
FeedBurner on the Evolution of Feeds
Dick Costolo of FeedBurner has posted an astute analysis of the changes that are happening in the creation, distribution, and publication of XML feeds. The entire post (and the 300 kb PDF report it's excerpted from) are worth reading, but...
Securing Feeds
Greg Reinacker of NewsGator has as smart post about security in XML feeds where he makes a strong argument for reusing prior art: My advice for now? Don't worry about it. RSS today is transported via HTTP. Sure, you could...
NewsGator Online API
NewsGator has just pre-announced the NewsGator Online API. From their description: NewsGator Online provides an API to allow application developers to develop aggregators and other applications that process RSS to use a NewsGator Online user's location, subscription and folder structure...
A Little Information About Feeds
We've published a page called About Feeds (XML, RSS and Atom) as a resource for people who aren't familiar with the technology to discover what feeds can do. Right now, the experience of reading and subscribing to feeds is very...
Simply Splicing Your Feeds
Ben's been hacking again, so we've got more little toys to play with. In his post Stupidfool.org: The Joy of Splicing, our Ben Trott describes how he's updated his XML::Feed CPAN module to let you use your Perl-fu to merge...
Enterprise-Grade Syndication
Mark Nottingham's doing what he does best, creating useful specs, in his post on Making Syndication Enterprise-Grade. The idea Mark's advancing is that feeds need to be persistent and reliably retrievable back to the origin of a blog, not just...
Get ready for Atom 1.0
At long last, this word from Tim Bray: "this draft is essentially Atom 1.0". The IETF process has some final details to iron out, but it's finally time to start building on top of the new standard. We'll be announcing...
IEEE article on Atom Syndication
Robery Sayre's just published a terrific overview of the Atom syndication standard and API, appropriately titled "Atom: The Standard in Syndication". While much of the basic material might be familiar, it's still one of the most comprehensive overviews of the...
Microsoft's Longhorn XML feed support
One of the biggest announcements at last week's Gnomedex conference was Microsoft's support for XML feeds in Longhorn, the next release of the Windows platform. Offering robust support for RSS and Atom, as well as some new extensions for lists...
Google's XSLT library for JavaScript
Google's just released Google AJAXSLT on Sourceforge. AJAXSLT is an open-source (BSD licensed) JavaScript implementation of XSL Transformation. In addition to being a really cool technology demonstration, the library could be used in a lot of practical applications involving client-side...
Social Software Considerations for XML Clients
Nick Bradbury, creator of FeedDemon (which was just acquired by NewsGator last week) has just put up a terrific analysis of the considerations all developers of RSS and Atom aggregators and syndication clients should be keeping in mind with regard...
Rojo Launches
Rojo, an interesting new web-based aggregation service, has just announced their official launch. Though they've got a complete tour of the application, some of the highlights that distinguish them from a simple feed-reading service including social networking features for sharing...
IETF Last Call for Atom
The IETF has just put out its last call, a key milestone on the road to The Atom Syndication Format becoming an official standard. If you've given the Working Group your feedback on the current draft, you might want to...
OpenSearch at Etech
A few of us from Six Apart are at the O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference, as mentioned on our Six Apart news blog, and if you're here, you'll want to check out Ben Trott's session on Making Web Services Personal at...
Atom feed template for draft 06
Update: It's worth noting that the Atom 0.6 Draft should not be deployed, as noted in the spec itself. This format is only to be used for experimentation or testing. Niall Kennedy has created an updated Atom feed based on...
