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Exploring Syndication: The Power of Web Feeds and Podcasting

This overview discusses syndication, the process that distributes website information through web feeds, particularly RSS and Atom. Users can subscribe to these feeds via browsers and feed reader applications, enabling them to receive new content from subscribed sites. The chapter explores various applications, including Google Reader and blogging platforms, as well as podcasting, which involves distributing audio and video files through RSS. It explains the necessary equipment for creating podcasts and the standards for managing web feeds.

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Exploring Syndication: The Power of Web Feeds and Podcasting

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  1. Overview • Syndication is the process of making a summary of a Web site’s information available to other Web sites and applications • A Web feed represents the list of items that are being shared • Feed reader applications and devices access the Web feed of each of the subscribed sites and deliver any new content Chapter 3: Syndicating Content

  2. Overview Chapter 3: Syndicating Content

  3. Exploring Web Feeds • RSS (Really Simple Syndication) is one of the first and most popular types of Web feeds • Web sites providing feeds usually display an orange Web feed icon • Feed icon • RSS icon • XML icon • Google Reader is a popular feed reader application Chapter 3: Syndicating Content

  4. Exploring Web Feeds Chapter 3: Syndicating Content

  5. Publish / Subscribe Model Chapter 3: Syndicating Content

  6. Exploring Web Feeds • Many bloggers syndicate their blogs’ content as Web feeds • News sites syndicate news headlines • Monster provides an RSS feed with job postings • eBay alerts users of daily deals • Amazon keeps users informed about bestsellers • Flickr notifies users of new photos Chapter 3: Syndicating Content

  7. Exploring Web Feeds Chapter 3: Syndicating Content

  8. Subscribing to and Reading Feeds Chapter 3: Syndicating Content

  9. Subscribing to and Reading Feeds • The ability to subscribe to a feed is standard in many Web browsers • The method by which you subscribe to feeds varies with each Web browser • Every browser presents Web feeds differently • Feeds are syndicated the same • XML (Extensible Markup Language) Chapter 3: Syndicating Content

  10. Subscribing to and Reading Feeds Chapter 3: Syndicating Content

  11. Features of Web-Based and Client Feed Readers Chapter 3: Syndicating Content

  12. Features of Web-Based and Client Feed Readers • Web-based feed readers • Google Reader • Contains feed searching capability • Bloglines • Client feed readers • FeedDemon • FeedReader • Microsoft Outlook Chapter 3: Syndicating Content

  13. Features of Web-Based and Client Feed Readers Chapter 3: Syndicating Content

  14. Features of Web-Based and Client Feed Readers • Blogs can contain gadgets to display Web feeds in sidebar gadgets • Gadgets update when blog is loaded or refreshed • Blogger defaults to automatically create feeds for its hosted blogs • Also syndicates full content • Professional bloggers manage their feeds and collect information about how users interact with them • Feed managing services • Metrics • Reach Chapter 3: Syndicating Content

  15. Features of Web-Based and Client Feed Readers Chapter 3: Syndicating Content

  16. Features of Web-Based and Client Feed Readers • Web-based applications incorporate data from Web feeds to present it visually Chapter 3: Syndicating Content

  17. Formats for Web Feeds • RSS 2.0 is the most widely used version of RSS • RSS is closed to further modifications • Atom is a newer, evolving alternative to RSS • Not as simple as RSS, but is becoming popular • Differences between RSS and Atom are transparent to the user Chapter 3: Syndicating Content

  18. Formats for Web Feeds • XML (Extensible Markup Language) is the underlying technology used for describing content syndicated using RSS and Atom feeds • Tags describe information • Opening tags • Closing tags • RSS and Atom feeds are the most common types of content represented in XML Chapter 3: Syndicating Content

  19. Formats for Web Feeds Chapter 3: Syndicating Content

  20. Formats for Web Feeds Chapter 3: Syndicating Content

  21. Exploring Podcasts • A podcast is a series of audio or video files that are broadcast to a computer or personal media player over the Internet by a publication in an RSS feed • Podcast reader • iTunes • You can download and watch podcast episodes directly on a Web site, or with a Web-based application Chapter 3: Syndicating Content

  22. Exploring Podcasts Chapter 3: Syndicating Content

  23. Exploring Podcasts Chapter 3: Syndicating Content

  24. Exploring Podcasts • Web-based podcast services contain directory listings of audio and video podcasts • Odeo manages podcast selections Chapter 3: Syndicating Content

  25. Features of Podcast Readers Chapter 3: Syndicating Content

  26. Anatomy of a Podcast Feed Chapter 3: Syndicating Content

  27. Creating Podcasts • Requires basic equipment for recording and editing digital audio and video • Most laptops have built-in Webcams and microphones, as well as recording software Chapter 3: Syndicating Content

  28. Creating Podcasts Chapter 3: Syndicating Content

  29. Configuring Blogger to Support Podcasts Chapter 3: Syndicating Content

  30. Configuring Blogger to Support Podcasts Chapter 3: Syndicating Content

  31. Configuring Blogger to Support Podcasts Chapter 3: Syndicating Content

  32. Summary • Syndication is a way to distribute and share Web content • Web feeds • Users can subscribe to Web feeds using a Web browser or a feed reader application • Content publishers syndicate their content as feeds using either the RSS or Atom formats, represented in XML • Podcasts are RSS feeds with an enclosed multimedia file Chapter 3: Syndicating Content

  33. Chapter 3 Complete

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