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sbisson ([personal profile] sbisson) wrote2002-06-20 02:34 pm
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Now this is neat: turning Google searches into a RSS feed

http://www.razorsoft.net/weblog/stories/2002/04/13/google2rss.html

It's a .NET application that can be used to regularly run a search, and expose it as RSS. This is an excellent example of showing how the two basic web service models can cooperate. The query is run through a SOAP RPC call, and then output as a published RSS document, that any site can subscribe to using an RSS aggregator.
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Er Yes

[identity profile] alexmc.livejournal.com 2002-06-20 04:40 pm (UTC)(link)
Shame about the .Net though. I think I tried this a few weeks ago with perl....
They limit us to 20 queries per day don't they...

RSS questions

[identity profile] ciphergoth.livejournal.com 2002-06-21 06:40 am (UTC)(link)
This RSS thingy ties into some thoughts I had about LiveJournal and problems with it. I hope you don't mind me asking you a few questions about it...

Is RSS the Right Thing?

What does it have to do with RDF?

Are there good open-source aggregators? Peerkat?

If LiveJournals were provided as RSS feeds, would it be easy to use an aggregator to generate your Friends page?

Is there any problem with making RSS play well with authentication (considering the problem of "friends-only" posts)?

I'm thinking about this because the problem with LiveJournal is that (eg) Charlie Stross doesn't show up on my Friends page, because he doesn't use LJ for his blog. LiveJournal has a sort of "network effect" popularity; I can only view the journals of, or set permissions on other LJ users, not on all bloggers. I'm wondering what technology you'd need to solve this. Any solution gives you scalability for free.

Or am I thinking about this in completely the wrong way?
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