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The Blog Business Summit - What we heard

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Last week, Dean and Robert Scoble spoke at the Blog Business Summit in San Francisco.

For those who couldn't make it, Peter Levinson has a great blow-by-blow of the talk at The Editor's Blog, while Ian Kennedy pulls out some of the highlights and has some interesting insights over on Flashpoint. Infoworld did a nice writeup, as well.

Both during the keynote and talking to everyone afterwards, we heard a few things come up a few times, and they're worth repeating:

  • First, as Peter mentions in his writetup, spam, spyware and security in general are issues high on people's minds. Peter describes out a few measures we've taken to keep the user protected from malicious or sneaky websites. Security and privacy are big issues for us. In the run-up to PDC 2005 (where Amar Gandhi, Group Program Manager of the RSS team will be giving a developer-focused talk on building RSS-enabled applications in Windows Vista), we'll have more to say about the steps we're taking to keep users secure when using RSS.
  • Second, there are a lot of opinions out there about how we're naming the RSS features in IE.That topic is worthy of its own post, so I'll simply say: the feedback is great.
    • On a related topic, it was pointed out at the summit that Amy Gahran of Contentious is the pioneer of the term "webfeeds" (via a contest she set up in April of last year), and I want acknowledge that contribution. It's no doubt due to her efforts that the term permeated enough that we picked up on the term without realizing where it originated.
  • Third, there's excitement around the idea of lists in RSS, but some questions and feedback as well. The feedback we heard has been incorporated into the spec, and a more detailed explanation has been posted.

Thanks again to those who came out to the BBS05, and thanks to the organizers for a great conference.

- Sean

Update: Included links to the updated SLX spec.

Comments

  • Anonymous
    August 26, 2005
    Thanks for the mention, Sean. Anything Microsoft can do to make feeds (or whatever name works best) easier for more people to understand and use is fine by me.

    - Amy Gahran
    Editor, Contentious