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The Power of Twitter in Information Discovery

Both Sides of the Table

Then came RSS ( Really Simple Syndication ) widely credited to Dave Winer for driving the spec & adoption. The idea was that websites (think news, blogs) could push out a regular “feed&# in an open, XML format that could be read by an RSS Reader otherwise known as a feed aggregator.

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Does Your New Year’s Resolution Include Reorganizing Your Data? Cross That Off The List Right Now!

YoungUpstarts

No need to even tell the search engine what format your data is in; it automatically recognizes popular file formats like PDF, HTML, XML, Microsoft Word, Excel, Access, PowerPoint, OneNote, etc. Just point to the relevant directories and the like that you want to index, and the application will do the rest.

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How Startup Companies are Reinventing their Newsletters as Full-blown Magazines

The Startup Magazine

Working with article distribution services online might be a good idea in this case, especially if email magazine editors aren’t opposed to using XML syndication technologies.

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4 Advanced Meta Tags For SEO You Might Not Be Using But Should

ConversionXL

Make sure you add your xml sitemap to the robots.txt file so Google’s crawlers easily find it. For publishers who syndicate content. Because every schema.org markup has different item properties and utilizes JSON-LD rather than traditional XML structure, adding schema.org isn’t necessarily a casual undertaking. product pages.)

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Verisign acquires Moreover

BeyondVC

What I can say is that Moreover was a pioneer in the early use of weblogs via newsblogger, news search, and content syndication via XML and RSS. Like Nick Denton and David Galbraith , I can’t comment on the acquisition.

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Building Competency in Semantic Web Technology - Part II

semanticuniverse.com

Web technologies are no different; the syndication formats RSS and Atom were the subject of a bitter format war starting around the year 2000. RDF is a tremendously simply standard - but it struggles to this day with a needlessly complex XML serialization. Especially for XSLT programmers, RDF appears to be very complex indeed.