Social Feed Reader - Specification of a prototype

Seminar paper from the year 2009 in the subject Computer Science - Commercial Information Technology, grade: 2,0, Technical University of Chemnitz, course: term paper writing, language: English, abstract: Management of information is gaining rising importance in knowledge intensive

projects. Many information sources in the web provide feeds for easy accessibility.

While there are a variety of software tools for personal feed consumption,

collaborative approaches are still rare.

This research project focuses on the theoretical aspect of feeds and their technical

background like Atom and RSS. Furthermore it gives an overview about the historical

development and intention of feeds and how it is used today.

It also provides an overview about related research projects and existing tools. The

paper concludes with an ideal social feed reader using common principles of social

software, like tagging, social networking, social recommendation and microblogging.