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A web feed is a data format used for providing users with frequently updated content.

A web feed is a data format used for providing users with frequently updated content.

A typical scenario of web feed use is:

  • a content provider publishes a feed link on their site which end users can register with an aggregator program (also called a feed reader or a news reader) running on their own machines;
  • doing this is usually as simple as dragging the link from the web browser to the aggregator. When instructed, the aggregator asks all the servers in its feed list if they have new content;
  • if so, the aggregator either makes a note of the new content or downloads it. Aggregators can be scheduled to check for new content periodically. Web feeds are an example of pull technology, although they may appear to push content to the user.
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Django-way for building a "News Feed" / "Status update" / "Activity Stream"

I'd like to create a reusable Django app that handles status updates of the Users. Much like facebook's "news feed". Use cases includes, for example: A Professor can create an Assignment due to an specific date and every student can see on the news…
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How do I efficiently update a UITableView with Animation?

My iPad app features a UITableView populated from a feed. Like most RSS readers, it displays a list of links to blog posts in reverse chronological order, with their titles and a summary of each post. The feed updates frequently, and is quite large,…
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Webcal / .ics subscribe to feed from within Android App

For a recent application, I want to provide the ability to subscribe to a calendar feed while staying on the android device. Going to calendar.google.com and manually adding the http link (ics) isn't an option. I can't really find a lot of…
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Django Activity Feed (Feedly Integration?)

I have built a simple Django photo app. Users can upload photos, follow other users and like photos. To handle relationships amongst the users (following & unfollowing) I use a package called django-relationships by coleifer. It's a great package…
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What types of posts are in a feed?

I was wondering what all the possible types of posts I can expect in a feed. The documentation at http://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/api/post/ mentions that the type field could be link, video, and photo, but that's clearly not a…
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Set Update Limits on iCalendar Feed

I have a calendar feed (.ics) available from my application, but it's quite large since it includes over 4,000 events. Is there a standard or best practice when it comes to specifying how many events get downloaded or how far back or forward the…
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How To Tell Web Browsers About Atom Feeds

My website has an Atom feed and I want to make it easier to subscribe to it. I see that many sites such as StackOverflow have the Atom icon in the location bar in Firefox 3. I haven't, however, been able to work out how. I assume some HTML is needed…
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PHP News Feed Database & Design

I'm designing a News Feed system using PHP/MySQL similar to facebook's. I have asked a similar question before but now I've changed the design and I'm looking for feedback. Example News: User_A commented on User_B's new album. "Hey man nice…
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Get live NFL scores/stats to read and manipulate?

I need some sort of database or feed to access live scores(and possibly player stats) for the NFL. I want to be able to display the scores on my site for my pickem league and show the users if their pick is winning or not. I'm not sure how to go…
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Detecting new new items in a RSS feed

What is the best way to detect when a feed has been updated? Say I have an application which polls the feed every 15 minutes. How do I find out if new content has been added or not? For RSS as well as Atom feeds.
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Feeds and podcasts for the vim text editor

Vimcasts is fantastic, and I want more educational, vim-related feeds and podcasts but am having trouble finding any more quality ones. There must be more out there. Are there other vim-related XML feeds and podcasts?
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getting high resolution photos that were posted on a page wall/feed

I'm getting my page wall with the open graph. And when someone posted a photo, I get it on the JSON { "id": "27888702146_10150369820322147", "from": { "name": "brocoli", "category": "Record label", "id":…
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Best practices for inserting/updating large amount of data in SQL Server 2008

I'm building a system for updating large amounts of data through various CSV feeds. Normally I would just loop though each row in the feed, do a select query to check if the item already exists and insert/update an item depending if it exists or…
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What Feed Reader libraries for Java are best?

What Java library would you say is the best for consuming and parsing feeds? Requirements: Embeddable Supports Atom & RSS Has caching architecture Should be able to deal with any feed format the same way (Please: one suggestion per answer.)
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How to embedded Instagram feed into my website

I am trying to integrate the Instagram feed of the client to the website sidebar. My website stack is Bootstrap, Vanilla JS, Jquery, and Laravel. I googled and did some research. I can't find a direct way to integrate the feeds. I went through…
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