Sunday, November 30, 2003

Should webloggers be concerned about how their feeds appear in the different newsreaders Scoble on Steve Gillmore's lastest eWeek article "Personally I think it's gonna take a lot longer than Steve thinks. A lot of my smart and geeky friends still haven't discovered the productivity power of RSS and even some who have, give me a list of reasons it isn't good enough (feeds don't consistently include all content, feeds don't have comments integrated)." Scoble last point (feeds don't consistently include all content, feeds don't have comments integrated) leads to a question.  Should webloggers be concerned about how their feeds appear in the different newsreaders (ie.  NewsGator, RSS Bandit, Radio, etc.)?  When things start to get serious in this space will newsreader developers start to play with these differences as features of their product.  If this battle begins it may start to look like the browser differences of years past.  Not pretty to even think about.  Opens to many doors for the big guys to become heroes and move in after everything is already 90% figured out and rolling along.  10:42:44 AM  comment []    trackback []     Steve Gillmor's predictions for RSS in 2004 Looks like eWEEK.com's Messaging & Collaboration editor Steve Gillmor is having some fun with his latest article Look Out, Outlook: RSS Ahead in 2004. In the article Steve gives his predictions for RSS in 2004.  I must admit some of Steve's predictions are going over my head at the moment (not enough background for me to make sense of) but despite that some of Steve's RSS predictions seem sound and interesting: RSS information routers with the following characteristics • Videoconferencing routing and broadcast/recording tools • Integration of speech recognition and real-time indexing to allow quoting of linear audio and video streams • Mesh networked peer-to-peer synchronization engine for item propagation across shared spaces on multiple clients, including phones; iPods; and eventually Longhorn PDAs (circa 2006). Steve also predicts new industries will emerge in rapid succession. • IM/RSS presence networks for rich collaboration and e-mail replacement • A DRM network with enough creative and hardware support to blunt the Microsoft/RIAA DRM threat to peer-to-peer port hijacking. As some of Steve's above predictions imply (my above list is a subset of Steve's predictions, see Steve's article for complete list), I predict 2004 will be one big RSS/XML Web messaging experiment.  To be continued. Steve Gillmor: "A game at which Microsoft excels -- the waiting game. Clone, wait, collaborate, extend, wait, repeat, rinse, dry. But now comes RSS -- and the rules may have changed. First, the enemy is now scattered, behind rocks, in startups, open source, virtual coalitions that pop up on IM and video conferencing, and a myriad loosely coupled evolutionary steps forward." Sounds like Crichton's emergent nano-threat. [Scripting News] 8:57:55 AM  comment []    trackback []     Audlink 10 most recent public messages It is great to watch Audlink begin to create an audio messaging community on the Web.  I  recently noticed that Audlink added a list of the communities 10 most recent public messages to their main page.  I hope next that Audlink adds a RSS feed so we all can easily listen as well as particiate in growing an audio messaging community together. Audlink -> The ten most-recent public messages on the system: 0311300212  Go 0311292253  Go 0311292213  Go 0311291329  Go 0311291159  Go 0311271959  Go 0311271955  Go 0311271932  Go 0311262210  Go 0311261806  Go 7:57:52 AM  comment []    trackback []     It's starting to look like a WIFI Christmas This ia a cool marketing idea.  Got my attention.  What shopping district will add WIFI next?  It is starting to look like this Christmas will be a boom for consumer electronics including the WIFI home access point.  Will this economy rise out of the ashes of dot com and step into the unwired home?  A least this time there is something for the happy consumer to buy in the stores.  People are really starting to spend money on home entertainment equipment for fun and to stay informed.  A lot of cool neat stuff this Christmas to choose from, Plasma TVs, HDTV, LCD TVs, cheap DVDs, Recorders, surround sound, etc..  As I have said before, home entertainment has changed.  The cool thing is the line between the Web and these boxes is starting to blur or as us IT people would like to say "gone wireless".  This Christmas should put the WIFI home squarely on the IT business radar. Yahoo! Sets Up Christmas Tree With Internet Receiver. Yahoo.com has set up a Christmas tree in Herald Square with a wireless Internet receiver on top, reports NY 1 News via Gizmodo and Gothamist. New Yorkers walking by with a laptop can set it down and log on via the tree’s receiver. Or they can use one of the computers set up next to the tree. It's meant to help holiday shoppers compare prices. And every shopper who logs on to the wireless tree gets an ornament with his or her name on it. Yahoo! will donate $5 to the Salvation Army on behalf of each user. [Smart Mobs] 7:14:43 AM  comment []    trackback []

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