Most blogs, cms, forums, etc. automatically generate rss feeds. However most ‘custom-built’ web sites do not have this features. So, many pages that would be perfect candidates for the ’subscription approach’ offered by rss do not offer them. For example ‘what’s happening’ pages and today pages at companies and school districts would be perfect candidates [...]
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Search engine news
May 30th, 2009 · Comments Off · Web
For a long time it looked like Google had the search engine competition closed up, but now there seems to be new activity. A few weeks ago a completely new search engine was released, called Wolfram|Alpha. Interestingly it seems to take a step back and use people to catalog the best information. It does not [...]
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RSS feeds
May 25th, 2009 · 4 Comments · Web
RSS feeds are one of my favorite aspects of the Web 2.0 ‘revolution’:
Almost all blogs (this blog and the forum included), new sites and the main web 2.0 sites (Facebook, Flickr, ….) all publish these standardized data streams. Basically, RSS is a standard for the formatting of news information: every article has a publication date, [...]
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