An innovator's guide to application development with blog,
wiki, and newsfeed technologies, this book introduces the new ways
of collaboration enabled by these technologies and focuses on the
fundamental concepts needed to understand how the technologies can
be used in real world applications. Blog and wiki server internals
are covered in depth, and newsfeed formats and web service
protocols for blogging are covered from a developer's
point-of-view. Also covered are a variety of techiques programmers
can use to monitor blog conversations, such as newsfeed search
engines, and ways to join in the conversation such as comments,
trackbacks, and Weblogs.com pings. Examples in Java and C# are
provided to show how to parse Atom and RSS format newsfeeds, how to
generate valid newsfeeds, how to serve them efficiently, and how to
automate blogging via web services based on the new Atom protocol
and the older MetaWeblog API. Focus is given to more than a dozen
blog apps—small but immediately useful example applications
based on blog, wiki, and newsfeed technologies.