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Title:

Not So Simple Any More: RSS's Bleeding Edge

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Organizer:
Chris Bucchere, bdg
Description:
Check your RSS reader at the door and hear about what some of the most cutting-edge web developers are doing with syndication. After being pigeonholed for years, RSS is growing up and going social. Learn how new ideas like community RSS aggregation and Attention.xml are shaping the future of RSS.
Questions
Answered:
  1. What is RSS?
  2. How has RSS been used since its inception in 1999?
  3. What's wrong with today's feed readers?
  4. What can I expect out of a next-generation feed reader?
  5. How are social networking and RSS related?
  6. What is community RSS aggregation?
  7. What is Attention.xml?
  8. How does RSS allow you to create mashups?
  9. What is Web 3.0/The Semantic Web?
  10. Will RSS be around in five years and, if so, what will I be doing with it?
Level:
Advanced
Category:
New Technology / Next Generation
Type:
Solo
Event:
SXSW Interactive 2009
Kevin Dewalt
on 8/8/08
While RSS can seem mundane to those of us on the bleeding edge, large content providers are struggling with how to make best use of it. Particularly in the current economic environment companies are searching for ways to distribute targeted content more cheaply.

No doubt there will be a lot of continuing innovation around simple syndication and lots of content currently distributed by email, HTML, etc. will begin migrating to RSS to take advantage of the parsing opportunities.

Great idea and well-timed.
Chris Bucchere
on 8/8/08
Here are 10 questions I plan to address in my presentation:

1. What is RSS?
2. How has RSS been used since its inception in 1999?
3. What's wrong with today's feed readers?
4. What can you expect out of a next-generation feed reader?
5. How are social networking and RSS related?
6. What is community RSS aggregation?
7. What is Attention.xml?
8. How does RSS allow you to create mashups?
9. What is Web 3.0/The Semantic Web?
10. Will RSS be around in five years and, if so, what will you be doing with it?
Chris Bucchere
on 8/8/08
Thanks for your comment, Kevin. Down with e-mail!
Andrew Bays
on 20/8/08
Feedhaus would be an excellent case study.
Chris Bucchere
on 21/8/08
@Andrew Bays -- True, true. If this talk is selected, I plan to mention it, for sure. But this talk is not about Feedhaus. It's about many of the creative ways people are using RSS on the social networking scene and to create mashups. Feedhaus's big day in the sun came when it was nominated for a SXSW Web Award last year. This talk is a totally different ball of wax.
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