The document discusses the tools used to build a sports mini-syndication feed application. It uses ROME and Universal Feed Parser to parse RSS and Atom feeds from the web. SQLAlchemy and JPA are used for object-relational mapping with a MySQL database. The user interface is built with zk-AJAX and Flex/Actionscript. Apache Tomcat is used as the web server. The workflow involves fetching feeds, aggregating data in MySQL, and displaying it in a timeline component. Additional proposed features include GData integration and text similarity searching.