It looks like RSS is *really* becoming the next big thing. I haven't visted any website lately that didn't offer a sort of RSS Syndication. Why? I think the answer is simple: RSS is XML and XML goes everywhere, talks to anything and is 100% platform independant. Since XML is so *transportable*, RSS enables access to relevant information anywhere, anytime, and even when you're offline! The cool thing is, one doesn't have to only transport text information with RSS. Another flavor of RSS enables you to Podcast.
As any modern Internet user, my favorite browser is Mozilla Firefox. It's the best browser I've used so far and it's got an important number of extensions for hardcore Internet users as well as extensions that would perfectly fit the online lifestyle of any other Internet users category. A very cool feature of Firefox is that it lets you know whether a website is offering feeds or not. If a website you are currently visiting offers feeds, you will see the RSS logo appearing at the lower right corner of the browser. I was in my Gmail Inbox today and I saw the RSS icon. I believe it must have always been there and I've never paid any attention to it. I quickly searched the web to find out how one could subscribe to his/her Inbox feed (ain't that cool?) . And yes, I wasn't dreaming. Gmail offers its users the possibility to RSS syndicate their mailbox: the software is getting cooler and featureful ;-).
So, now we know that we can syndicate our mailbox. How does it work though? All you have to do is to subscribe to it using the following format (it involves an HTTP authorization):
http://yourgmailusername:yourgmailpassword
@gmail.google.com/gmail/feed/atom/index.xml
And if everything works out well, you should be able to read your mailbox in your RSS news reader. Even better, you should be able to read your gmail-box on your Pocket PC using RSS Sync (ref.: the post before this one).
Have fun and let me know how it goes!
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I am waiting patiently to see what comes next after xml/rss. Looks like life has always been that way. Things come, they become hip and in no time folks forget about them.
ReplyDeleteI remember when back in the days e-cards became the craze. Then flash animations took over the web arena. Some few 'centuries' later we started seeing "email this to a friend" and "printable format" links all over the web. Just taking a turn off the web, mobile phones with cameras took over the human race:>). Should I say blogging was or is...?
Then came these tiny orange icons. RSS. Its interesting the kind of things it allows us to do.
What do u think could be the next big 'data' thing after XML/RSS?
Cant we get full mail content through RSS?
ReplyDeleteI want to receive full mail content through RSS but its just showing me link and subject, author etc. how can i get full mail?