Friday, December 08, 2006

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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.
Hint: This is a sample Word document.

Ans:
http://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?id=o03581386086714357829.5754392390558635915.07729308617273775530.6033348902681861585


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.

news.yam.com
中時電子報
New York Times
Taiwan

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. )


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