Homework 7

1. In an era of Web 2.0, Software as a Service is becoming popular.
Google Docs is one of the famous examples. In the followling lab, let's give Google Docs a try.

• Go to Google Docs. Google Docs lets you write Word documents through an online web service.
• Write some words in a Word format.
• Publish the Word document.
• What's the URL of your document.
  ans: http://docs.google.com/View?docid=df6psgj4_1db9pfd
  

Hint: This is a sample Word document.

2. RSS is a tool to syndicate web publishing. Many blogs and news websites make use of RSS.
In the following lab, we will see how RSS is used for syndication and subscription.

• Enter Google Reader
• Try to put the following in the search box.

ANS: I use Bloglines to instead!

news.yam.com
蕃薯藤新聞 - 即時
Fri, Dec 8 2006 10:10 PM (98 subscribers)
給你最完整的新聞報導
http://news.yam.com/RSS/Rss_all.xml

中時電子報





1.中時電子報-最新焦點
Fri, Dec 8 2006 10:13 PM (116 subscribers)
中時電子報：全球最大的華文新聞網站，每日提供中國時報、工商時報及中時晚報新聞，並有提供廿四小時即時新聞。
http://rss.chinatimes.com/rss/focusing.rss

2.中時電子報-即時新聞
Fri, Dec 8 2006 10:13 PM (86 subscribers)
中時電子報：全球最大的華文新聞網站，每日提供中國時報、工商時報及中時晚報新聞，並有提供廿四小時即時新聞。
http://rss.chinatimes.com/rss/latestnews.rss

3.中時電子報-主編精選
Fri, Dec 8 2006 10:15 PM (72 subscribers)
中時電子報：全球最大的華文新聞網站，每日提供中國時報、工商時報及中時晚報新聞，並有提供廿四小時即時新聞。
http://rss.chinatimes.com/rss/editor_pick.rss

4.中時電子報-新聞排行榜
Fri, Dec 8 2006 10:15 PM (43 subscribers)
中時電子報：全球最大的華文新聞網站，每日提供中國時報、工商時報及中時晚報新聞，並有提供廿四小時即時新聞。
http://rss.chinatimes.com/rss/clickboard.rss

New York Times
NYT > Home Page Fri, Dec 8 2006 6:35 AM (112 subscribers) New York Times > Breaking News, World News & Multimedia http://graphics8.nytimes.com/services/xml/rss/nyt/HomePage.xml

Taiwan
Taipei Times
Bringing Taiwan to the World and the World to Taiwan
http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/index.rss

• Subscribe to the RSS feeds one by one.
  
• What is the RSS feed that Google Reader takes in? List the URL of these RSS feeds.

(Hint: Examine Yam's RSS feed. )