Hacking eBay: Turning Email Alerts into Atom

[mandy]

Article provides a tutorial on using ATOM with eBay notifications.  Sample scripts to download at end of article.

From our geeky perspective, Atom and RSS seem to be sweeping through the internet, changing the way people and systems get notified about events. From a broader perspective, though, they've got a long way to go — we all have plenty of computer-literate friends who've never heard of either....

I wrote something to convert eBay saved search notifications into an Atom feed to make my own life easier...

full article: http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2005/11/23/hack...-atom.html