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AJAX

See Asynchronous JavaScript and XML. nooked APIs are perfect for use in AJAX applications.

Analytics

Analytics, or scientific analysis, is the study of business data using statistical analysis in order to discover and understand historical patterns with an eye to predicting and improving business performance in the future. By analyzing your historical feed and client statistics you can learn more about how your data and clients are performing.

API

See Application Programming Interface(API). nooked provide APIs that you can use to build create feeds and clients (widgets, social network applications, mashups) that consume or produce feeds.

APP

See Atom Publishing Protocol

Atom Publishing Protocol

A simple HTTP-based protocol for creating and updating web resources that has been ratified by the IETF. Also known as RFC5023

AtomPub

See Atom Publishing Protocol

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CPA

Cost Per Action (CPA) is a billing metric commonly used whereby advertisers only pay when users complete some action (e.g. purchasing a product in an online store) after clicking through from some other web site or service. This metric is also employed by nooked.

CPC

Cost Per Click (CPC) is a billing metric commonly used whereby advertisers only pay when users click on advertisements on web pages. This metric is also employed by nooked.

CPM

Cost Per Mille (CPM) is a billing metric commonly used whereby advertisers pay for every thousand impressions of their advertisements on web pages. This metric is also employed by nooked.

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Entry

An Entry is a container for all of the content specific to an individual object in an atom feed (or container). See the Atom Syndication Format specification for the technical details.

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feedcommerce

feedcommerce enables retailers to open their product information to all of the current and future Web platforms that reach consumers by making their product data available for anyone to us via feed syndication formats and feed publishing protocols.

Feed

A feed a list of items (entries), ordered by date of publication.

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Gadget

Gadget is another term for a Widget

GData

GData, or Google Data APIs, is the umbrella term for the various APIs that Google publish that allow third parties to integrate with their services. Many GData APIs are based on the Atom format and the Atom publishing protocol.

Google Base

Google Base is an open database for information hosted by Google. Google Base also defines a very comprehensive XML schema for product information that are commonly used to add extra semantic value to feeds and entries that are served by nooked.

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hCalendar

hCalendar is a microformat that can be used to embed rich semantic calendar information into XHTML content - for example the contents of a feed entry. See the hCalendar wiki page.

hCard

hCard is a microformat that can be used to embed rich semantic contact information into XHTML content - for example the contents of a feed entry. See the hCard wiki page.

hListing

hListing is a (proposed) microformat that can be used to embed rich semantic product or service descriptions into XHTML content - for example the contents of a feed entry. See the hListing wiki page.

hReview

hReview is a microformat proposal that can be used to embed rich semantic product or service reviews into XHTML content - for example the contents of a feed entry. See the hReview wiki page.

HTTP Authentication

HTTP Authentication allows a client to authenticate when making a request to a HTTP web server. See Basic access authentication. nooked support the HTTP Basic variant, over http or (more secure) https as well as our API key authentication scheme.

HTTP Status Code

The HTTP Status Code is a code that is returned in every response issued by a HTTP server when responding to a HTTP Request. See HTTP Status Code Definitions

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JSON

See JavaScript Object Notation. We will be offering feed data in JSON format to make it easier for JavaScript widgets to integrate with nooked.

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Merchant

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Microformat

Microformats are small bits of HTML that represent things like people, events, tags, etc. in web pages. Microformats enable the publishing of higher fidelity information on the Web, providing the fastest and simplest way to support feeds and APIs. See Microformats.org

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OpenID

OpenID eliminates the need for multiple usernames across different websites, simplifying your online experience. See OpenID.org

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Publisher

TODO

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REST

See Representational State Transfer. All nooked APIs are RESTful.

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Source

A Source is a feed of product data that is automatically pulled into a nooked hosted feed.

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Widget

Widgets are downloadable interactive virtual tools that provide services such as showing the user the latest news, the product information, mapping information etc among other things. Widgets are built on Widget Engines

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XHTML

XHTML is a reformulation of HTML 4.01 in XML. For more, see XHTML

XML

Extensible Markup Language (XML) is a simple, very flexible text format. Originally designed to meet the challenges of large-scale electronic publishing, XML is also playing an increasingly important role in the exchange of a wide variety of data on the Web and elsewhere.

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