April 2009
Beginner
384 pages
11h 20m
English
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CHAPTER 5. Content Aggregation, Syndication, and Federation via RSS and Atom
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I always traversed the web the old fashioned way to find new content and updates viz. start the day with Slashdot, Digg, and the like, and then visit each website I am interested in via bookmarks. Of course, the old fashioned way takes too much time and leads to visiting websites even when there are no updates. There are too many interesting websites with lots of information—but there is not enough time to visit all of them and check if they have any new information. How do we track them all and know when they have new materials? To answer that I realized ...