Corporate Information SystemsWilliam A. Sodeman, Ph.D.

Hawaii Pacific University19 July 2008

Saturday afternoon session

What is RSS? Really Simple Syndication Push technology

XML is a “wrapper” or a lightweight data-integration system

XML = machine readable data HTML = human readable web pages

Users can subscribe to content that they want to read

The user decides when, where and how to read their subscriptions

See this article for more details

Why use RSS?Benefits Examples More convenient that using

bookmarks or web search Event-based feeds deliver

information when the event happens

Many RSS feeds offer full-text content for free

Few or no advertisements! Users can use the RSS feed

list across multiple services

Stock and portfolio tracking Weather forecasts Package tracking Podcasts Music playlists Sports scores Traffic conditions More examples

RSS examples in the enterprise Replace dashboards Replace broadcast e-mail messages Announce company and department events Distribute mission-critical reports and documents Display lists of exceptions

Receivables that are 30 days past due Late or AWOL employees

Reading RSS feeds with traditional applications Readers are built into modern web browsers

Internet Explorer Firefox Safari Opera

There are dozens of feed readers available as stand-alone applications

Some readers can synchronize with a web service

RSS feeds and Web services There are hundreds of web-based RSS readers and

aggregators Google Reader My Yahoo! Bloglines

Feeds are updated on the service’s server Easier to share feeds and articles with others Service can recommend feeds and articles based on

usage patterns