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Grokking RSS + SSE, but what about OPML + SSE?
It has been a week since the RSS / OPML/ SSE proposal was announced by Ray Ozzie and Dave Winer....
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 11/28/2005
Flickr is having a massage
There are certain advantages to being in permanent Beta. This is one of them.
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 11/27/2005
Web 2.0 Workgroup
It is my pleasure to inform that this blog has joined the Web 2.0 Workgroup, a non-formal network...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 11/27/2005
Halo 2 on the 360
Russell Beattie tried out Halo 2 on his new Xbox 360: "the killer app of the 360 is the same killer...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 11/27/2005
Follow-the-sun search
Follow-the-sun search. Via Joe Heck.
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 11/27/2005
You used to have 2 customers: advertisers and readers. You now have a 3rd: mashers.
Matt McAlister of Yahoo! has some good advice for online publishers. His last observation nails it:...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 11/27/2005
Tim. SDN ain't exactly sorted
Tim Bray: "Oh yes, and since we’re talking about standards, would MSDN please get a clue!?!?." Good...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 11/26/2005
Attention podcast part 1, Joshua Porter and Alex Barnett, part 1
This is the first of a two part podcast Skype chat with Joshua Porter and I (part 1: .mp3, 43mb,...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 11/26/2005
OPML sampling
One of the nice things about sharing our OPML is the ability to sample feeds you've not tried...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 11/25/2005
attentional blink
Dave Munger on a phenomenon apprarently called 'attentional blink': "Take a look at the following...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 11/25/2005
Alex and Raymond's screencast mash-up (or Collaborative Screencasting)
Well, the future of screencasting is already here. Internet time stuff, eh? We talked about it, so...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 11/25/2005
The future of screencasting
I've been following Raymond Kristiansen's Don't Lose the Question (DLTQ) blog for sometime. He's an...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 11/24/2005
Mashable OPML attention
Pete Cashmore has uploaded his OPML file / blogroll into opmlmanager.com too. Worth browsing /...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 11/24/2005
I didn't touch anything, I swear.
I didn't touch anything, I swear. (a la Tara, in reference to this) Tags: OPML, Attention...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 11/24/2005
Windows Live Mail (codename:Kahuna): spellchecker video
Windows Live Program Manager, Imran Qureshi: "Today I'd like to give you a sneak preview of one the...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 11/24/2005
Wow, an OPML browser and wishlist
The guys who developed opmlmanager.com, Bernard Flach and Peter Overbleeke have now released World...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 11/24/2005
Tags and liberal interpretations
This poppeed into my RSS reader just now. It was tagged as 'UI' in Flickr. The tagger in question...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 11/23/2005
Uh, oh, I've been spotted.
Cristian has worked me out. - Tags: Attention, OPML
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 11/23/2005
404
In case you've ever wondered... via Digg.
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 11/23/2005
Attention, Cars and OPML
I had a chance Skype call with Joshua Porter (thanks Richard for connecting us). I've been following...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 11/23/2005
'my OPML file is a mini blogosphere'
Library clips: "my OPML file is a mini blogosphere" (via Raymond,via OPML) Tags: OPML, Attention
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 11/23/2005
Did Wells predict the Internet?
Jack William Bell asks if H.G. Wells predicted the internet. From reading this 1937 essay, 'The...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 11/23/2005
Why the Brightcove deal matters
Why does the Brightcove deal matter? Here's three reasons I've given previously: Media will change...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 11/22/2005
tracking my Xbox 360 delivery via RSS
I've blogged parcel tracking via RSS before, but I've actually got a UPS package I want to track via...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 11/22/2005
Lisa gets Attention via OPML
I'm enjoying Lisa William's OPML blog She 'gets' what I'm talking about re: OPML and Attention: "For...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 11/22/2005
Microsoft proposal: Simple Sharing Extensions for RSS and OPML
(Updating with reactions, below)- Dave Winer: "Microsoft has unveiled a new proposal called SSE,...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 11/21/2005
Loser Generated Warning Label
Loser generated using the Warning Label Generator, via Assaf and Richard.
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 11/21/2005
Digg + slashdot + del.icio.us/popular = diggdot.us
Digg + slashdot + del.icio.us/popular = diggdot.us Here's the RSS feed. via John Musser (again)
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 11/21/2005
'with great power comes great responsibility'
"with great power comes great responsibility" Source: Uncle Ben to Peter Parker in Spider-Man...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 11/20/2005
entertaining ideas: attention data in OPML
Dare Obasanjo: "My advice to Nick and others who are entertaining ideas around standardizing...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 11/20/2005
Conversations on Attention, OPML and Attention.xml
(If you're really not up for reading this, or want more thoughts, you can listen to my podcast...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 11/20/2005
No Error
Joseph Heck: "I've never seen an error page that read: "No Error"."
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 11/20/2005
tag-tástico
Tecnocitas puts this another way. "2006 será un año tag-tástico" Tag-tastico...love it! Tags:...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 11/20/2005
Help needed: who can host a podcast for me?
Am desparate here, need your help. Having issues with ftp this morning...can anyone host a 10mb mp3...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 11/20/2005
MSN Messenger World's Best App Contest
John Musser: "a number of entries for MSN Messenger’s World’s Best App Contest are now listed here...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 11/19/2005
RSS überuser screencast
J Wynia has created a screencast (.wmv) showing how he reads and manages his RSS. From what I can...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 11/19/2005
2006 will be a tagtastic year
Greg Prosl pinged me about a video sports service he has just launched: BroadbandSports.com. The...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 11/19/2005
1 billion searches in a year sounds like a lot
IT Facts: "Annual Web search usage and volume is projected to cross the 100 bln threshold during the...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 11/19/2005
My neck that gets as stiff as a piece of wood
And now for something completely different. Here is a snippet from MSDN Korea's latest VS2005 rap...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 11/19/2005
Ajax whois
Ajax whois. Why not? Via Digg (the slashdot killer...this digger doesn't agree)
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 11/19/2005
What is Screencasting article, a good intro.
Jon Udell lit up this Del.icio.us feed to the screencast tag, with this What is Screencasting...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 11/19/2005
RSS, the Web 2.0 glue
Don Hinchcliffe: "Problematically, RSS is still not quite a household word yet, and even the...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 11/19/2005
Looks like a wind up to me.
Business 2.0 Blog: "MIT's Nicholas Negroponte showed his much-anticipated $100 laptop at the U.N....
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 11/19/2005
Listening to Web 2.0
I'm listening to a presentation Joshua Porter gave at an event called Buy, Hack, or Build:...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 11/18/2005