Last week I was meeting with my friends over at Corante. We were engaged in a day-long session on how we will be rolling out new technology and services to the public over the next few months.

One of the topics of discussion, of course, was the availabilty of APIs for other developers to leverage in their own applications. I raised the case to the gang that RSS was indeed our first layer to the API. It provides a static, yet up-to-date method for accessing the site’s data. This was the strategy I took with the Sparkcasting.com site as well - the entire site renders from the RSS that anyone can use.

Of course, Hylton plants a nice pointer on me today that talks exactly about this:

RSS is like an API for content. RSS gives you access to a web site’s data just like an API gives you access to a web site’s computing power. Most important, RSS gives you access to your data that you have locked up on a web site.

Source: Nivi, “RSS is an API for Content”

Are you using RSS as your API? Can you point to some examples?