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iTunes Offers RSS Feeds
TheChocolatay writes "iTunes is now offering RSS Feeds for the latest happenings in the Music Store. Users can set up their parameters for a feed at Apple's iTunes Music Store RSS Generator. After you have set your parameters, just sit back as the news and track listings are sent to your favorite RSS Reader."
RSS feeds are a kind of XML format into which headlines of all posted stories of a website are summarized.
Or more detailed :
The RDF Site Summary is actually an extension to the RDF language. Quoting the official RSS v1.0 specification: 'RDF Site Summary (RSS) is a lightweight multipurpose extensible metadata description and syndication format. RSS is an XML application, conforms to the W3C's RDF specification and is extensible via XML-namespace and/or RDF based modularization.'
(http://web.resource.org/rss/1.0/spec)
Don't worry about it too much. Apple owns a big chunk of Akamai, and is also its largest customer.
RSS Readers for OS X
"Honey, I feel a certain distance between us..." "Really? A 31ms ping ain't that bad..."
I can just open my RSS reader and know if the cd I want has (finnally) made it to the iTMS, and not have to bother searching whats new. I'm happy that it's easily to see what's new, even though you still do need an additional program.
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Apple sold the last of their stake in akamai last quarter, as reported in their earnings results.
By using this spiffy program to sync it. Well, if you have an iPod. Oh, and a Mac. Please donate to the author.
Motley Fool is pretty bullish on Akamai. Of course, they better be since they're a customer. However, many large companies rely on Akamai, including Best Buy, McAfee and MSNBC. Given that a good caching service can reduce bandwidth usage by 50% or more, any large website that uses a caching service is highly dependent on it. However, it'd be hard to run any type of large site without one - Akamai or whomoever.
Changing a caching provider is relatively easy once a contract is signed. A caching network is largely a DNS configuration change. One shouldn't need to change any telecommunications connections or reconfigure applications.