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Hacking RSS: Filtering & Processing Obscene Amounts of Information

Event Interactive 2011
Format Solo
Organizer Dawn Foster – Intel
Description Information overload is less about having too much information and more about not having the right tools and techniques to filter and process information to find the pieces that are most relevant for you. This presentation will focus on showing you a variety of tips and techniques to get you started down the path of looking at RSS feeds in a completely different light. The default RSS feeds generated by your favorite blog or website are just a starting point waiting to be hacked and manipulated to serve your needs. Most people read RSS feeds, but few people take the time to go one step further to hack on those RSS feeds to find only the most interesting posts. I combine tools like Yahoo Pipes, BackTweets, PostRank and more with some simple API calls to be able to find what I need while automatically discarding the rest. You start with one or more RSS feeds and then feed those results into other services to gather more information that can be used to further filter or process the results. This process is easier than it sounds once you learn a few simple tools and techniques, and no “real” programming experience is required to get started. This session will show you some tips and tricks to get you started down the path of hacking your RSS feeds.
Questions
Answered
  1. How can I find information more quickly and efficiently than my friends, coworkers and competitors?
  2. How can I modify an RSS feed to contain new or different information from the published feed?
  3. How can I filter RSS feeds to discard irrelevant information and focus on my areas of interest?
  4. How can I use Yahoo Pipes to filter results?
  5. How can I combine multiple APIs to gather additional information from an RSS feed with no “real” programming required?
Level Intermediate
Category Collaborative Filtering
Tags information overload, RSS, yahoo pipes
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