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Mar 20, 2008

Facing Content Theft

So, like other bloggers I am facing the problem of content theft. It is being done by scraping the full feeds. Man, it is so easy to use technology the wrong way! [Continue]

Oct 18, 2006

We are seeing novel uses of markup languages, like publishing, syndication and even for desktop applications. Think about HTML, XML if you are uncomfortable with the markup languages phrase. There are different categories of markups - presentational (HTML), procedural (Tex, PostScript) and descriptive (XML). [Continue]

Aug 5, 2006

Attack Of The Feeds

As JavaScript and AJAX are getting more and more popular in the 2.0 world, so are their misuses! News.com reports about miscreants being able to use RSS and Atom feeds as attack delivery systems. Like a webpage, a feed can play host to malicious JavaScript code embedded in the corresponding feed. [Continue]

Aug 3, 2006

Private Syndication

Bloglines has come up with a specification (via Scripting News) for implementing the idea of private syndication. Just like webpages can be opted out of search engines using robots.txt, feeds will now be able to define their access. This idea has been welcomed. [Continue]

Jun 7, 2006

More Applications For Feeds

Feeds are an important aspect of my daily reading. I cannot cope up with the ever increasing list of sites I am reading without them. So much so, that I have started assuming that I will find feeds on all sites. [Continue]

May 16, 2006

Share Your OPML And My Blogshelf

Share Your OPML (SYO) is a pet project of Dave Winer. OPML (Outline Processor Markup Language) is a heirarchical and ordered list of arbitrary elements. Here is the Wikipedia entry. [Continue]

Apr 9, 2006

Reach Out To Email Subscribers via Feeds

Feeds have definitely been the choice of syndication in recent times, whether it is for blogs or other websites. Feeds allow syndication without need for duplication of the content, and enable single source publishing. A content once published can be automatically syndicated without making duplicate copies. [Continue]

Mar 15, 2006

FeedTree - It Is About Innovation And Improvement

chuyskywlk has decried FeedTree as one of the unrequired technologies. The argument stems from the following points: To start, RSS is inherently smaller than HTML. HTML include presentation constructs, styles, images, and more which RSS excludes. [Continue]

Feb 21, 2006

mobileGlu - Feeds For Mobiles

I had thought FeedTree was enough food to digest, and there comes some more. A post Slashdot regarding RSS, flickr and del.icio.us on mobile. A new service has just launched that acts as a hub between the mobile and popular Web services like flickr, del.icio.us, upcoming.org, mobloguk and RSS feeds. [Continue]

Facing Content Theft

Semantic Markup

Attack Of The Feeds

Private Syndication

More Applications For Feeds

Share Your OPML And My Blogshelf

Reach Out To Email Subscribers via Feeds

FeedTree - It Is About Innovation And Improvement

mobileGlu - Feeds For Mobiles

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