RSS is one the hottest technologies at the moment, and even big web publishers (such as the New York Times) are getting into RSS as well. However, there are still a lot of websites that do not have RSS feeds.

Yahoo has big plans for RSS Content Syndication according to Jeremy Zawodny, a Yahoo employee.

On any given day, WebProNews content is discussed in the blogoshphere. What content are they linking to.

New websites are being launched daily. In order to compete, webmasters need to find alternative ways of producing themed websites.

RSS Syndication or RSS Newsfeeds (RSS Feeds for short) all refer to the same thing.

If you’re sick of being #987 for your best Google keyword phrase, here are simple-to-implement changes that can skyrocket your listing (and they don’t have anything to do with what is ON your page!)

With the rise of always-on Internet connections in homes and businesses, and the continued explosive growth of the World Wide Web and Internet-accessible applications, it is becoming more and more important for applications to be able to share data with each other. Sharing data among disparate platforms requires a platform-neutral data format that can be easily transmitted via standard Internet protocols-this is where XML fits in. Since XML files are essentially, simple text files with well-known encodings, and since there exist XML parsers for all commonly used programming languages, XML data can be easily consumed by any platform.

Consuming a Syndication Feed in an ASP.NET Web Page

In order to test the syndication engine we just created, let’s build an online news aggregator that allows for any number of syndication feeds. The aggregator user interface will be fairly straightforward, comprising of three frames, as shown in Figure 2. In the left frame, a list of the various syndication feeds will be listed. In the top right frame, the news items for the selected syndication feed will be displayed. Finally, in the bottom right frame, the title and description of the selected news item feed will be displayed, with a link to the news item. Note that this UI is pretty much the de facto standard UI for aggregators of all kinds, including news aggregators, email clients and newsgroup readers.

This is Part 5 of a 5 part article “Creating An Online RSS News Aggregator With ASP.NET”.

As I was redesigning our website a few months ago, I wanted to include the most current news stories on marketing. I also wanted the ability to provide up to the minute news for World, National, Sports, Medicine, Alternative Medicine, Technology, Travel… you get the picture. I basically wanted to provide all types of news as it happens. Oh, by the way – it also had to be FREE.

As blogs and RSS feeds gain more popularity amongst the mainstream, content aggregation and integration seems to be the next logical step in the right direction. Most of the content integrating technology till date has been focused on the “Back-End” – XML-RPC, SOAP, RSS feeds etc. We’ll show a very easy, yet very effective, way of enabling content integration using dynamic JavaScript.