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Web Syndication:
Building A Custom News Page
Presented to
The Columbus Computer Society
February, 2006
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Introducing Syndication
A New Way to Use the Web
• Content Developers Publish
– News
– Blogs
– Many other sources
• Consumers Subscribe
– Via clients
– Via Web sites
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What Can Syndication Do For Me?
• For Publishers
– Share your content
– Increase your readership
• For Consumers
– Create a custom news page
– Browse your favorite sites all in one place
– Save time
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How Does Syndication Work?
• Publishers place a file on their Web site
• This file contains content to be published
• The file is encoded in RSS (or ATOM) format
• RSS files are often generated by a program
• RSS files (also known as Feeds) are often
designated by icons like these:
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How Does Syndication Work?
• Consumers access feeds via an aggregator
• The aggregator can be a program…
– FeedDemon
– FireFox
– Pluck
• Or it can be a Web site…
– My Yahoo
– BlogLines
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Adding Feeds
• Consumers add feeds in one of three ways:
– Inside an aggregator client or Web site
– Clicking an aggregator-specific link on a Web site
– Manually copying a feed link from a Web site and
pasting it into an aggregator client or Web site
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Getting Started with My Yahoo
• For this presentation, we will use My Yahoo
to demonstrate Web syndication
• My Yahoo is a Web-based aggregator
• A Yahoo account is required
• Advantages of My Yahoo
– No software to load
– Available anywhere there is Web access
– Transparently supports all RSS/ATOM versions
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Getting Started with My Yahoo
• My Yahoo provides a place to bring together
current information from many sources
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Getting Started with My Yahoo
• With My Yahoo, you can choose your news.
For example:
– National headlines from CNN
– Local news from the Dispatch
– Sports from ESPN
– Computer News from C-Net
– Weather from Weather.com
– Geek news from SlashDot
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Getting Started with My Yahoo
• The first step is to create a Yahoo account
(unless you already have one)
• The next step is to create a My Yahoo page
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Getting Started with My Yahoo
• After a My Yahoo page is created, the next
step is to add content.
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Adding Content
• There are many sources for RSS feeds
– Favorite Web sites that support RSS
– Blogs
– My Yahoo
– BlogLines Directory
– Eventful.com for events
– Feedster Search
– BlogPulse
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Demonstration
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Questions
&
Discussion
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Web Syndication:
Building A Custom News Page
Presented to
The Columbus Computer Society
February, 2006
Web Syndication
February, 2006