RSS - the future of the Internet?
A friend of mine once wrote in ICQ that he practically stopped visiting websites, instead of reading everything through RSS. This idea sunk into my head, and I decided to systematize my knowledge about this technology, and think about what it lacks. Perhaps, in the future, the main element of the Internet will not be a website, but any source of RSS content, even just shared by someone in the Google reader?
In short, this technology allows you to keep track of updates on sites. If there are few websites, it’s not a problem once a day or an hour to go to each and see if there is anything new. When there are several dozen of them - RSS saves. More precisely - Feed , because there is an even newer format Atom . More information, including their history, can be found in the computer . There are many different programs and services for reading them, I use the Google Reader Watcher and Brief plugins for FireFox.
The main types of existing services for RSS now are:
Also, RSS is actively used to distribute (and automatically download) large files via the BitTorrent protocol, mainly serials. Read more: uTorrent , LostFilm , NovaFilm , EZTV (TV series in English), torrents.ru , NNM-Club , anime .
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The main operations in RSS-readers, except for the read mark :), are:
The first thing missing in RSS is managing the number of news in the feed. For example, in the site’s 20 posts, you run an RSS reader once a day, and 21 news items appeared on that day - you’ll miss one. Alternatively, you can add a link to the RSS page to the previous page of the feed, this will allow the server to store it in static files (less load), and the client to take the history of the desired depth. Another option is a link to the script, which as a parameter you can set the desired number of posts, or the desired time range. In the standard GData , for example, it is provided. A similar opportunity is provided by Google : 'http://www.google.com/reader/atom/feed/' + address of the tape + '? N =' + number of records (default = 20), but it does not store the history of all tapes.
It would be nice to be able to filter and group the content of the tape by its tags / categories and authors, if there is a category / author field in it. Now Google Reader does not handle them at all, but it would be nice to see a “plus sign” next to the tape like your tag folders, when clicked, a list of tags / categories of posts of this tape appeared with the ability to read only posts marked with this tag. Although for sure it is in some other RSS-reader.
The ability to post a comment directly from the RSS-reader. This is provided in the Atom Publishing Protocol and in GData, for authorization there are many standards such as OpenID , probably sooner or later this possibility will appear.
Links to the tapes associated with this post, with the possibility of subscribing to them with one click, like clicking Star / Share. For example, to subscribe to feed comments on this post. And vice versa, from the commentary post tape - links to the main feed.
The latter would greatly facilitate the reading of the forum in the RSS reader. The main tape could be a list of all sub-forums. One click of the mouse directly in the RSS reader could subscribe to new topics in selected subforums. Also with one click - subscribe to all posts of the topic you like.
Perhaps exporting all the data from forums and blogs will erase the difference between them. If you take all the new forum topics, group by author, and sort by the date of the first post - we get a set of blogs. And if you group all the posts from blogs, for example, by tags, and sort by the date of the last comment, you'll get a forum from blogs. All this could be done in the RSS reader :)
And what is missing in the RSS feed or would you like to see?
In short, this technology allows you to keep track of updates on sites. If there are few websites, it’s not a problem once a day or an hour to go to each and see if there is anything new. When there are several dozen of them - RSS saves. More precisely - Feed , because there is an even newer format Atom . More information, including their history, can be found in the computer . There are many different programs and services for reading them, I use the Google Reader Watcher and Brief plugins for FireFox.
The main types of existing services for RSS now are:
- Aggregators that allow you to combine multiple RSS feeds into one. The most popular, of course, is Google Reader . In addition, it allows you to share your collections, for example mine: web , java , p2p , the rest .
- Filters that allow you to select only a portion of the news from the RSS feed. The most powerful is Yahoo Pipes .
- Keshi If the generation of RSS feeds on your site / server is too heavy - you can use, for example, FeedBurner (bought by Google). It also provides statistics about the audience of your feed.
- Storing history. As in the past, dejanews was for newsgroups and web.archive.org for the Internet. For example, Google Reader, when you add an RSS feed to it, automatically provides its entire history (since the first addition of this feed to anyone).
- The creators of RSS-feeds for those sites that do not have them. From simple page2rss types (eg K-Lite ) to sophisticated types, again, Yahoo Pipes (eg Cinema-Shit Reviews ).
- Advertise in RSS feeds. Only just starting to appear, for example, in Google .
- RSS export services in the form of html, pdf, js, images, sending by e-mail, etc.
Also, RSS is actively used to distribute (and automatically download) large files via the BitTorrent protocol, mainly serials. Read more: uTorrent , LostFilm , NovaFilm , EZTV (TV series in English), torrents.ru , NNM-Club , anime .
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The main operations in RSS-readers, except for the read mark :), are:
- Star. Type as "star" as important, add to favorites / bookmarks.
- Share. Share. Add to your ribbon, visible to friends.
- Tag. Tag "tags" (categories) or put in a folder - different types of classification
- Comment. Add to the news your comment.
The first thing missing in RSS is managing the number of news in the feed. For example, in the site’s 20 posts, you run an RSS reader once a day, and 21 news items appeared on that day - you’ll miss one. Alternatively, you can add a link to the RSS page to the previous page of the feed, this will allow the server to store it in static files (less load), and the client to take the history of the desired depth. Another option is a link to the script, which as a parameter you can set the desired number of posts, or the desired time range. In the standard GData , for example, it is provided. A similar opportunity is provided by Google : 'http://www.google.com/reader/atom/feed/' + address of the tape + '? N =' + number of records (default = 20), but it does not store the history of all tapes.
It would be nice to be able to filter and group the content of the tape by its tags / categories and authors, if there is a category / author field in it. Now Google Reader does not handle them at all, but it would be nice to see a “plus sign” next to the tape like your tag folders, when clicked, a list of tags / categories of posts of this tape appeared with the ability to read only posts marked with this tag. Although for sure it is in some other RSS-reader.
The ability to post a comment directly from the RSS-reader. This is provided in the Atom Publishing Protocol and in GData, for authorization there are many standards such as OpenID , probably sooner or later this possibility will appear.
Links to the tapes associated with this post, with the possibility of subscribing to them with one click, like clicking Star / Share. For example, to subscribe to feed comments on this post. And vice versa, from the commentary post tape - links to the main feed.
The latter would greatly facilitate the reading of the forum in the RSS reader. The main tape could be a list of all sub-forums. One click of the mouse directly in the RSS reader could subscribe to new topics in selected subforums. Also with one click - subscribe to all posts of the topic you like.
Perhaps exporting all the data from forums and blogs will erase the difference between them. If you take all the new forum topics, group by author, and sort by the date of the first post - we get a set of blogs. And if you group all the posts from blogs, for example, by tags, and sort by the date of the last comment, you'll get a forum from blogs. All this could be done in the RSS reader :)
And what is missing in the RSS feed or would you like to see?
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/28158/
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