Wine.com Offers RSS-based API

Published: July 31, 2007, 3:57 pm

We have written here extensively about the rise of web services and the transformation of the web into a platform. In our post When Web Sites Become Web Services we argued that more and more web sites will open their information via an interface. In our post about Yahoo! Pipes we wrote about viewing the web as a massive, and in essence relational, database. And finally in the post about the Future of RSS we looked at the past, present and future uses of the really simple syndication protocol. Today we will look at an example of putting all of these elements together. Wine.com has launched an innovative way to expose their catalog - via RSS with the API on top. Evolving the Typical Online Catalog Until recently, Wine.com was just a basic wine catalog. It was well designed and easy to navigate, but it was definitely a web 1.0 kind of site. As the winds of the new web started to blow, the company realized that it needed to stay on top of the wave. With competitors like Corkd, Snooth

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