Chapter 3. Feeds

Have you ever subscribed to a website to get special bulletins, news headlines, or newsletters sent directly to your e-mail account? I have subscribed to quite a few but find that they tend to clutter up my inbox.

There is a new option for subscribing—web feeds. Feeds are a standardized web format used to publish frequently updated websites such as blog entries, news headlines, and so on. Feeds have many benefits over e-mail subscriptions, a major benefit being we do not have to provide personal information such as an e-mail address while subscribing. Feeds can be set up in Lotus Notes with ease, as we will see in the following pages.

More and more companies are enabling their websites with feeds. So, having a good understanding ...

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