Finding and consuming web subscriptions in a web browser

摘要

A content syndication platform, such as a web content syndication platform, manages, organizes and makes available for consumption content that is acquired from the Internet. In at least some embodiments, the platform can acquire and organize web content, and make such content available for consumption by many different types of applications. These applications may or may not necessarily understand the particular syndication format. An application program interface (API) exposes an object model which allows applications and users to easily accomplish many different tasks such as creating, reading, updating, deleting feeds and the like. Further, in at least some embodiments, a user can subscribe to a particular web feed, be provided with a user interface that contains distinct indicia to identify new feeds, and can efficiently consume or read RSS feeds using both an RSS reader and a web browser.

主权项

1. A computer-implemented method comprising:
receiving a user selection in a reader to launch a web browser to view an item in a feed; launching the web browser; making the item available for viewing using the web browser; using the web browser to make other feed-associated items available for viewing, without requiring a user to return to the reader to make subsequent item selections; providing a link associated with the feed to a web content syndication platform; causing the web content syndication platform to check a platform feed store for a matching link to enable display of the item in the feed in an application, regardless of whether the application is syndication-aware or not syndication-aware; and responsive to a user selection in the application to subscribe to the feed, presenting a user interface instrumentality to enable the user to determine a location for the feed to be included within a hierarchical organization of feeds associated with the user.