Introducing myself

["Bas A. Schulte" <bas@xxxxxxxx.xxx]

Hi all,

just discovered this Syndication community during one Yet Another Surfing
Session on Content Syndication (YASSCS?). I'm a developer for a company in the
Netherlands that's doing web content syndication in Europe.

We're currently still in the phase that Mark Kennedy describes so well in an old
message on this list:

> a personal finance web site with a
> large amount of editorial content. The biz dev folks are constantly working
> on deals with portals, etc. to carry our content. In the past, every time
> they inked a deal a new means of delivering the content was developed. Some
> content is emailed to partner A; partner B gets their info FTP'd; partner C
> gets it flown in by carrier pigeon; etc. I'm now trying to convince everyone
> that we need an XML solution. Everyone (partners included for the most part)
> agrees that XML is the solution, the question is "which format?"

I symphatize with you very much, Mark ;) Our news database's pretty cool, our
incoming feeds are running fine, but the hoops we have to jump through with each
new customer to get our news on their site...

I'm still unexperienced with all the emerging technologies (xmlnews, ICE, RDF,
OCS, RSS, to name a few); it is pretty overwhelming at this stage.

I'll be reading the archives on this list the next few days (and surfing all the
sites mentioned), hopefully I'll be able to participate some more later on. If
anyone has any pointers to FAQs and/or other places where these matters are
discussed, please let me know.

Regards,

Bas.