RSS/ATOM Articles

  • Introducing the AOL Journals Open Blog API
    by Kevin Farnham
    November 29, 2007
    The Open Blog API provides an interface for managing AOL Journals blogs from any device that can interact using HTTP. In the first part of two-article series, Kevin Farnham reviews the standards that form the API's basis and introduces the API's features. More...
  • Mashup Case Study: Extending the Capabilities of an AJAX RSS Reader
    by Paul Sobocinski
    Feb 7, 2007
    Take one RSS feed, husk the XML, and add parsing. Pour the contents into the AOL Video Search API, and bake for 0.65 seconds. What do you get? A richer, video spiced news experience! Paul Sobocinski shows us how. More...
  • RSS and AJAX: A Simple News Reader
    by Paul Sobocinski
    Nov 3, 2006
    Ajax (Asynchronous JavaScript And XML) and RSS (Really Simple Syndication) are two technologies that have taken the Web by storm. Most commonly, RSS is used to provide news to either people or other organizations. This is done by serving an "RSS feed" from a website. An RSS feed is simply a link to an XML file that is structured in a certain way. The RSS specification tells us the expected structure of the XML file. For example, the title, author, and description tags are required, and so all RSS XML files will have at least these three tags. More...
  • Implementing the Atom Publishing Protocol
    by Joe Gregorio
    Jan 27, 2007
    Joe Gregorio's latest Restful Web column implements the Atom Publishing Protocol as a Python web service using WSGI. More...