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There's always hype around the web and related technologies. If it's not Web 2.0 then it's Web 3.0, the Semantic Web or any number of new protocols, trends and standards that have someone convinced that a massive paradigm change is just around the corner.

As you might fear, there's a new kid on the block: the Pushbutton Web. How is this any different from the point and click web we already know so well? Read on.

Mochila Sees the Power of Syndication

Mochila is again on the move. The online media marketplace for text, photo, and video content just introduced an application programming interface for Syndication.

This API gives publishers the ability to automatically connect their content management and web publishing systems to Mochila’s high-quality rights-managed content.

Members have the option to customize real time feeds through this open standards XML-based API using multiple parameters including keyword, category, byline, and source.

By connecting with Mochila’s API, members have the potential to provide millions of their monthly visitors with enhanced search functionality that includes relevant information from the Mochila content database.

The first publisher to take advantage of this new application is Farlex, Inc.

Known for its TheFreeLibrary.com and TheFreeDictionary.com sites, Farlex has begun to integrate with Mochila and use the Mochila API to enhance the content experience for its users.

Mochila is certainly making it easy for publishers to acquire “high-quality content” – and is just another way Mochila has demonstrated its dedication to evolving and challenging the traditional way of syndicating content.

A “Publish” button on everything.

Although Tim Bray’s original vision has not yet become a reality, his vision and the help of many brilliant minds brings us RFC 5023 - The Atom Publishing Protocol.

Senator Ted Stevens wasn’t far from the truth when he called the internet a “series of tubes.” If he’d said pipes instead, he probably would have gotten far less of a crucifixion — that is, if it’s possible for one crucifixion to be less unpleasant than another.

With content floating around in so many varied forms (blogs, wikis, news, niche information), there have got to be better ways to organize all that info we’re streaming aside from the current process of choice: standard RSS feed readers and browsers. While convenient, RSS readers don’t allow for much data structuring and have a limited framework for manipulation.

This post was authored in FireFox and so far, with good reason. After not so lengthy a pursuit, we have yet to find a blogging client (free or commercial) with the features and usability that inspire us to click the browser to the curb and start authoring from a desktop app.

As it turns out, we might have better luck if OSX is what we called home, but being Win32 geeks, we do tend to drag that perspective around with us.