Homework 11-25-2006

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.

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. )