Syndication Hacks

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From a presentation by Ben Hammersley and Timothy Appnel at OSCON 2005

  1. Syndication as a Web Service
  2. Read RSS in Excel, at www.puremis.net/excel/soft/EaZyRss.shtml
  3. Job Listings, at www.indeed.com
  4. Track eBay, at www.rssauction.com
  5. Personalized Feeds for Customer Services, at www.netflix.com/RSSFeeds
  6. Podcast
  7. Tracking Links, e.g. Technorati Watchlist
  8. Read IMAP via RSS
  9. Mixing iTunes & del.icio.us Feed, e.g. www.lifehacker.com/software/entertainment/how-to-find-and-add-media-to-your-itunes-library-with-delicious-110812.php
  10. See your latest work (find the most recently modified files in some place, generate RSS feeds from it)
  11. BitTorrent Hunting
  12. Display WebDav directories
  13. Carefree RSS in Perl, interprets all kinds of RSS dialogs / different usages in one API, see search.cpan.org/dist/XML-RAI/
  14. Track a feed's readers, at www.feedburner.com
  15. Syndication in MT
  16. Read GMail
  17. Content Pipelines with AtomFlow, at www.dynamicobjects.com/d2r/archives/002885.html
  18. Track bands, authors, e.g. channels.lockergnome.com/rss/resources/amazon.phtml
  19. Blogrolls at XHTML, e.g. microformats.org/wiki/xoxo
  20. Package Tracking, e.g. www.benhammersley.com/tools/fedex_package_tracking_in_rss.html
  21. Creating a proper linkblog feed with Atom diveintomark.org/archives/2004/05/27/howto-atom-linkblog
  22. Code to-do lines (grep for "FIXME" words in source code, export as rss)
  23. Representing Tags in Feeds
  24. Track 404 Errors
  25. Atom as Archive Format
  26. Daily cartoons
  27. Build maps with Yahoo Maps and Geocode RSS, see developer.yahoo.net/maps/documentation.html
  28. Validate your HTML, see www.benhammersley.com/tools/xhtml_validator_to_rss.html
  29. Feed Subscriptions: A View from the Cloud, see www.tagcoud.com
  30. RSS on your mobile, e.g. www.litefeeds.com
  31. Syndication to PDF, see www.rss2pdf.com
  32. Make RSS look pretty, see www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/network/2005/07/01/rss.html
  33. Keeping tabs on your TO DO, see www.tadalist.com
  34. Weather, see [1]
  35. Elsewhere w/ del.iciou.us: make comments, bookmark the in del.icio.us with a specific tag, such as mycomments, then subscribe to appropriate feed
  36. Calendar sharing, see rsscalendar.com
  37. Secure Syndication with GreaseMonkey
  38. RSS as First Class Document Type (Dan Bricklin at Software Garden)
  39. Amazon Wishlist Feed, see [2]
  40. Feeds by E-mail, see [3]
  41. Halo 2 Stats, see www.isamrad.com/Halo2RSS
  42. Get Your Patent Mojo, see patentmojo.com
  43. Add headlines to (insert your portal here)
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