The object of this lab is to do some exercises to raise your awareness of internet security issues, and to experiment with rss mashups.
Make sure you have read all the online lecture notes, and especially, about phishing, and mashups
Please play the Anti-Phishing Phil game until you get through all 4 levels. The instructions are duplicated here for your convenience:
Take the quiz on the Protect your Financial Identity website to find out how to protect yourself from scammers.
I mention here a feed which relates to the security theme, being a local security news feed.
I also like the contents of the APWG Phishing and eCrime Newswire page, which seems to be composed from an RSS feed, but I could not find a link to subscribe.
Nevermind, I could just use the
Dapper data mapper
service which will
allow conversion of web content into an RSS feed.
As part of this task, please see their Demo, and either experiment with this, or just think about how this might be useful to you.
Hint: this is the last lab with new content before the assignment is due, so its a good idea to find a feed relevant to the theme of your assignment ...
In the XML etc lecture, on the mashups slide, I showed a mashup of Reuters news with a map.
In this exercise, play with the
Yahoo Pipes mashup tool to do
something. Their documentation suggests using Firefox in preference to
Safari (which has minor issues
).
Their documentation page is probably a good place to start, there are links to on-line tutorials and so on.
I suggest you start with just filtering out more specific content from a feed (I managed to make this work).
Its worth a try to see if you can replicate the geocoding of the Reuters news with your feed, but I have to admit I couldn't get this to work on the two feeds I tried. Yahoo Pipes is beta software, which means its not necessarily easy to use, or has some bugs. The objective is not that you have to make something that works, but to get you to experiment, and to think about what kinds of things might be possible with this kind of technology / interface.
Of course, put in links to any pipes you construct on your Xanga page / public_html pages, if its useful to your theme.