| RSS with an Ajax Twist | | Personally, one of the simplest yet amazing web tools today is the RSS. This tool could be found everywhere – in blogs, news, podcasts and videos. Users could even configure Google to alert them via RSS with the keywords they prefer. In fact, Google Reader is an elaborate web based program that gathers all the RSS feeds preferred by the user. You do not have to go back and forth to the webpage for update. The news is sent directly to your mail, or to your reader depending on your preferences. On the other hand, Ajax is an emerging technology that has practically influenced all facets of web technology. Fortunately enough, it has also influenced RSS opening doors to almost infinite possibilities. When a developer is very creative with Ajax, the developer could do so many things and RSS could be recreated to a new life. When we combine RSS and Ajax, we end up with an Ajax based feed
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