Glossary

Aggregation

(Automation of) the process of harvesting feeds is called aggregation.

Aggregator

ATOM

Feed

Newsreader

OPML

RSS

Stands for:

Real Simple Syndication

Rich Site Summary

RDF Site Summary

Syndication

Content is created once and published in such a format (free and public available on the web) so that it can be re-published on various locations, in various formats, and in various compositions with other content. This process is called ‘syndication’.

Tag

- As in markup language (HTML tags, XML tags)

- As in tagging content in tools (e.g. Technorati, del.icio.us, Flickr)

XML

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