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Working with the Google AJAX Feed API

Simplifying a historical complexity
By Chris Schalk
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January 10, 2008 11:00 AM EST
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As you may know, one of the most compelling features of the Internet has been the explosion in the use of Internet feeds. Internet feeds serve as an extremely useful way to syndicate pure data in XML, as opposed to classical HTML Web pages where the data is intermixed with the user interface. Due to its simplicity, there are now literally millions of Internet feeds available with myriad data like the weather, news, and blogs.

Historically the only downside was that interacting directly with Internet feed data was somewhat complex because you had to extract and parse the XML feed data for display. Typically this was done using server-side technologies such as Java and PHP.

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Chris Schalk is a Tech Lead in the Developer API Evangelism group at Google. He is also one of the original members of the OpenAjax Alliance. Prior to Google, Chris was a Principal Product Manager and Java Evangelist for Oracle's application server and development tools division. While at Oracle, he worked to define the overall web development experience for Oracle JDeveloper and ADF Faces (Trinidad). He is also the co-author of JavaServer Faces: The Complete Reference published through McGraw-Hill Osborne (ISBN: 0072262400) and maintains a popular Blog on J2EE Web development at www.jroller.com/page/cschalk.

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Vidal 04/15/08 09:01:30 AM EDT

Hi, I've just finished my new vertical job search engine JobGeni http://www.jobgeni.com that runs on Google AJAX Feed API. It's pulls the data from several major jobsites like indeed, simplyhired, yahoo hotjobs, monster and jobster.