Tuesday, March 02, 2004
Syndication
All you ever wanted to know about syndication.
Actually I am mostly posting research I have aggregated from a bunch of other web sites on syndication here.
I have had an atom XML feed for a while - since blogger made it available actually. See button on the left hand side.
I have also been using Intravnews for my aggregator - which incidentally can't open atom XML feeds yet. But the developers say it is coming and as it is free I will wait.
But aggregators are the way to go - they allow you to subscribe to feeds from web sites. In short, a piece of code that is published every time a web site updates allowing you to see that in your aggregator. Intravnews tightly integrates with Outlook so I don't have to have another software application running. The blog posts appear just as they do on the web site, and you can also subscribe to a Haloscan user's comments (provided you know their Haloscan username). Thus you can quickly get updates on blogs as they post, without having to check them all just in case!
Here then are a bunch of links to getting you started with finding out about syndication and aggregators.
Syndication
These two pages will give you a stack of links that will assist you so I won't bother recreating all the links here.
d2r
Living Room
Some Aggregators
About
Intravnews
Google Search
Some Feeds
Robin Good
syndic8
Blogstreet
Feedster
