Talk:Web syndication
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[edit] Real-time Syndication?
What about syndication strategies which push changes in real-time to the recipient rather than letting the recipient periodically poll for them?
In some cases only the fact that a change has happened is transmitted, as in the case of IRC Bots or other chat notification.
In some other cases the entire content is pushed to the target, as in the case of E-Mail Alerts or NNTP, which however only does a push type of distribution to its node servers. The last mile to the news browser is usually polled rather than pushed.
Do we have a document listing suitable push technologies? Apparently not.
Even more interesting is multicast push, where the news is distributed efficiently to an arbitrary amount of recipients. Are IRC and PSYC the only technologies providing this type of scalable instant notification? --SymlynX 19:14, 29 October 2006 (UTC)
Citations showing first large scale Interent syndication of online content. Miniclip's Dancing Bush game was freely syndicated to all websites:
- Wall St. Journal, Jan., 2002 article referring to 2001 Dancing Bush sensation: http://www.domainmart.com/news/WSJ_ecommerce-marketing2.htm
- Library of Cogress, archive, Oct, 23, 2001 : http://wasearch.loc.gov/sep11/2001*sa_/dancingbush.com/ clearly shows Dancing Bush freely syndicated: "Put on your site for free" link under Dancing Bush game. This is the earliest archived example of a large website freely syndicating online content.
- Google: Go to google and type in "dancing bush" to see the thousands of websites that Dancing Bush was syndicated to.
- Comscore Media Metrix Industry reports: http://www.comscore.com/press/release.asp?id=254 showing Miniclip as a top newcomer to the Internet (a major website) in 2001 with over 1 million users.
- Dancing Bush game with 2001 copyright notice and syndication link: "Put this on your website for free" http://www.miniclip.com/games/dancing-bush/en/
- One of the first websites it was syndicated to with the syndication link visible in game under the "more" button: http://www.dancingbush.com/
Frankly, I found the page "web syndication" to grossly contain many errors. First, miniclip was not first - [1] was providing syndicated web content years before that site ever went online.
Displaying an RSS image is wrong as well; that is a symbol for displaying content IN a desktop reader - not on the web. It's a half fact implying content is available via that to display on the WEB. That image is for content displayed on a user's desktop newsreader NOT on the web.
I added a link to a site put up by news publishers which offers syndicated web content you can add to a site and the developers also rate the content listed there as to say a rating makes the content safe to use. Yet it was removed. That was wrong! There are so many erroneous sources, when publishers finally get together and offer web content that can be used, it should hardly be dismissed.
Had there been a category to edit to ADD related links to that page, I would have placed the link there, but as I am new to contributing, I do not know how to add an editable category to a page. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Axcess2you (talk • contribs) 16 November 2007
- On the category thing, I don't quite understand what you mean. You want to change a category? Which category should be changed? Just tell what you want done exactly and I, or someone else can help you with it. Martijn Hoekstra (talk) 22:50, 16 November 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Spam
Shouldn't allow people to start listing their services...
Abdurrahmanadvany 19:58, 2 July 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Proposal: Merge Internet Content Syndication to here
A new article has just been created called Internet Content Syndication. I am concerned that having two articles on such closely related topics will create a content fork. I am also concerned that the new article seems to be getting its content (including its choice of title) from internetcontentsyndication.org, which is the website for an advocacy group promoting the internet content syndication industry. [2] betsythedevine (talk) 18:10, 23 May 2008 (UTC)
In my opinion, the terms "web syndication" and "internet content syndication" both describe the practice of distributing (syndicating) content via the internet. I think that there is some good material about the history of syndication in the new article. The "white paper" it quotes, however, is not an encyclopedia-quality source. Web syndication could use some improvement, but it has been in Wikipedia longer and represents a more likely search term. I would like to hear some opinions from others, however. betsythedevine (talk) 18:32, 23 May 2008 (UTC)
In my opinion, it's ok like this... don't merge it... —Preceding unsigned comment added by 79.116.223.175 (talk) 13:40, 25 May 2008 (UTC)
- I agree that the pages should be merged. Per WP:NEO there is no need to introduce a term 'internet content syndication' unless there are reliable sources which show that this is a term in wide use, one that has a different meaning from web syndication. All I see is one particular industry group trying to promote it as a new concept. EdJohnston (talk) 13:50, 25 May 2008 (UTC)
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- Merge completed, I did not remove any significant text. But I believe there some that could be reworked per the comments above
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