suppliers. These components cover generic RSS feeds along with specific components for working with the
public APIs from Google, Yahoo! and Amazon. RSS has come a long way from its niche amongst the more
technologically minded bloggers and is now used by the majority of news sites. Zend_Feed provides a
consistent interface to reading feeds in the various RSS and atom versions that are available without having to
worry about the details.
Google, Yahoo! and Amazon have provided public APIs to their online services in order to encourage
developers to create extended applications around the core service. For Amazon, the API revolves around
providing access to the data on amazon.com in the hope that the new application will encourage more sales!
Similarly, Yahoo! provides API access to their Flickr photo data in order to allow additional services for Flickr
users, such as the print service provided by moo.com. The traditional Yahoo! properties such as search, news
and images are also available via Zend_Service_Yahoo.
Google has a number of online applications that allow for API access which are supported by the
Zend_Gdata component. The Zend_Gdata component provides access to Google’s Blogger, Calendar, Base
and CodeSearch applications. In order to provide consistency, the Zend_Gdata component provides the data
using Zend_Feed, so if you can process an RSS feed, then you can process Google Calendar data too
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