Safari can subscribe to RSS feeds; so can Mail. Podcast Producer is an RSS or XML feed as are the feeds created by blog and wiki services in Mac OS X Server. And then of course, RSS and ATOM come pre-installed with practically every blogging and wiki tool on the market. Those doing mass deployment and scripting work can make use of automatically connecting users to and caching information found in these RSS feeds. If you have 40,000 students, or even 250 employees, it is easier to send a script to those computers than to open the Mail or Safari client on each and subscribe to an RSS feed. Additionally,…
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MySpace RSS Integration
MySpace won’t die. Good. Competition breeds innovation and if social networks are to continue to become more and more useful then a somewhat healthy MySpace is simply going to keep the cog wheels turning in the otherwise spiderweb filled heads of talented engineers. MySpace introduced applications awhile back and there is now a pretty ample number, although nothing close to what Facebook has. I suppose there’s something to be said for being a day late and a dollar short, eh? Most of the applications, as with Facebook, aren’t that useful. Games to help you waste time and quizzes to help you inform your friends and coworkers that you haven’t stepped…
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Determining WordPress RSS URLs
RSS feeds are pretty darn useful for a lot of things. And WordPress makes them really, really easy. If you want to insert an rss feed somewhere then according to the type of feed you need, you can just use a pretty repeatable pattern to do so. Basically, following the site you would use /wp-rss.php for rss, /wp-rss2.php for rss2 or /wp-atom.php for Atom feeds. For example, to get a feed of this site in rss you could use the following: https://krypted.com//wp-rss.php Or rss2: https://krypted.com//wp-rss2.php Or rdf: https://krypted.com//wp-rdf.php Or Atom: https://krypted.com//wp-atom.php
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MagpieRSS, a PHP Based RSS Parser
RSS is an incredibly powerful way to manage content. Using RSS you can provide a feed to users and your website simultaneously. You can then have items your site, such as WordPress dynamically generate pages for browsers using items published in the feed and have users able to view the feed without seeing the rich media objects that you might also put on the site. A basic RSS feed might include something like the following: <item> <title>My Article</title> <link>http://https://krypted.com//article1</link> <description>Some article on my site.</description> </item> Each of the above items is a field that has been defined in the rss file that is used to view your feed, similar to…
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Feeds, Rights Management, Blogging & You
A blog is a stream of conscious. To some degree, so is an rss feed. If you are browsing it in rss then your reader will more than likely allow you to limit which articles you wish to see based on their tags or other information gleaned from the rss feed. For example, you can use feed://https://krypted.com//feed to access this page without graphics, which looks at the rss feed rather than the richer media content, including the css and other elements that cause graphics and the such to appear on the site. You can then limit your results to any field that is specified in the index.rss file. In this case,…
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Final Cut Server: Atom and FCS
Atom, an alternative to RSS, is used extensively in Final Cut Server. Atom allows one to, for example show a list of assets and parse the information in a manner that makes sense to a browser to read. Atom also makes internationalization easier for developers. For more information on Atom see it’s wikipedia entry at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atom_(standard) In the px PostgreSQL database for Final Cut Server, you’ll notice the pxatommap, which is used by Final Cut Server to parse the nearly 2,000 fields of data used by Final Cut Server into information easily readable by clients using Atom, similar to how the widget that I recently posted on this site uses RSS…