RSS, RDF, Atom, and Dublin Core are all types of information-feed specifications that deliver Web content to aggregators for other sites to index and help feed-reader applications track frequent site posts - Google tracks 1.4 million RSS feeds, and there are approximately 250,000 additional feeds powered by Atom, a newer protocol - Features numerous hands-on "hacks" that help developers make the most of the information feed protocols
Table of Contents:
Acknowledgments.Foreword by Dare Obasanjo.Foreword by Greg Reinacker.Introduction.Part I: Understanding the Issues and Taking Control.Chapter 1: Managing the Flow of Information: A Crucial Skill.Chapter 2: Where Did Information Feeds Start?Chapter 3: The Content Provider Viewpoint.Chapter 4: The Content Recipient Viewpoint.Chapter 5: Storing, Retrieving, and Exporting Information.Part II: The Technologies.Chapter 6: Essentials of XML.Chapter 7: Atom 0.3.Chapter 8: RSS 0.91 and RSS 0.92.Chapter 9: RSS 1.0.Chapter 10: RSS 1.0 Modules.Chapter 11: RDF: The Resource Description Framework.Chapter 12: RSS 2.0: Really Simple Syndication.Chapter 13: Looking Forward to Atom 1.0.Part III: The Tools.Chapter 14: Feed Production Using Blogging Tools.Chapter 15: Aggregators and Similar Tools.Chapter 16: Long-Term Storage of Information.Chapter 17: Online Tools.Chapter 18: Language-Specific Developer Tools.Part IV: The Tasks.Chapter 19: Systematic Overview.Chapter 20: Modeling Feed Data.Chapter 21: Storing Feed Data.Chapter 22: Consuming Feeds.Chapter 23: Parsing Feeds.Chapter 24: Producing Feeds.Chapter 25: Queries and Transformations.Chapter 26: The Blogging Client.Chapter 27: Building Your Own Planet.Chapter 28: Building a Desktop Aggregator.Chapter 29: Social Syndication.Chapter 30: Additional Content.Chapter 31: Loose Ends, Loosely Coupled.Chapter 32: What Lies Ahead in Information Management.Appendix A: Answers to Exercises.Appendix B: Useful Online Resources.Appendix C: Glossary.Index.