IT360 Notes – Using RSS Feeds lecture
This first semenar I visited was conducted by Kris Hadlock of Studio Sedition. He’s an AJAX designer and wrote Ajax for Web applications, published by O’Reilly.
I’m already pretty familiar with RSS 2.0 but I did find the bit on the cloud tag interesting. Also, I was surprised that the skiphours tag can have an effect on ratings and viewership but it makes sense. It makes sure you don’t wind up in what would be the garbage hours of tv viewing, and target the 8am crowd just getting into work.
Jot notes:
- syndication – one source to many
- push to masses (but it’s a pull format, not push)
- user chooses input
- free advertising through google news
- big for search results
- standardized format, publish once and it’s easy to import
- RSS 2.0 is most commonly used standard
- went over anatomy
- cloud tag is exciting, allows apps to sign up to be notified by push rather than pull
- cloud tag contains SOAP url that allows people to sign up to be pinged when your feed is updated, push rather than pull
- does your ping just say “updated” or contain the updates?
- textInput tag is nifty, allows you to ingrain comments, goes unused, not all clients support it
- skipHours is useful but underutilized
- found that when syndicated at midnight his articles go unread, but first thing in the morning he gets lots of reads and good ratings
