Hacking RSS And Atom

Hacking RSS And Atom | 14.9 MB
This book is not about the minutia of RSS and Atom programming. It's about doing cool stuff with syndication feeds-making the technology give you exactly what you want the way you want. It's about building a feed aggregator and routing feeds to your e-mail or iPod, producing and hosting feeds, filtering, sifting, and blending them, and much more. Tan-talizing loose ends beg you to create more hacks the author hasn't thought up yet. Because if you can't have fun with the technology, what's the point? A sampler platter of things you'll learn to do

* Build a simple feed aggregator
* Add feeds to your buddy list
* Tune into rich media feeds with BitTorrent
* Monitor system logs and events with feeds
* Scrape feeds from old-fashioned Web sites
* Reroute mailing lists into your aggregator
* Distill popular links from blogs
* Republish feed headlines on your Web site
* Extend feeds using calendar events and microformats