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Wednesday, December 18, 2002 |
Now I need to figure out what these new things mean for me.
The creativeCommons RSS 2.0 module is now deployable. Thanks to everyone who commented, most of them were incorporated into the spec. At this point you may use the module in RSS feeds, and thanks to the magic of namespaces, as an extra bonus, you may also include them in other XML formats that are not RSS 2.0.
 Daniel Berlinger's Really Simple Discoverability format, aka RSD, has gone to version 1.0. Congrats to Daniel, Seth Dillingham and Brent Simmons, who all believed in the format before it caught on. This morning I released new code to bring Radio's support for RSD up to the 1.0 level. When Jake gets in later, he'll do the same for Manila. Thanks to Daniel for pursuing this. Tools for editing weblog posts will be easier to configure once there's across-the-board support for this format. For users this means word processor-like editors to write for your weblog. Turning the Web into a fantastic writing environment, one decade at a time. ";->" [Scripting News]
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1:40:18 PM
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Most of this is about meeting the information needs of our users. We all have information needs for communication, collaboration, and entertainment. Maybe another way to slice it is Search needs, Consuming needs, and most important the need to create information, after all "the information that is most important to a user is the information that they create." [Microcontent Magizine]
Extending Aggregator Reach.
Last-minute Business RSS
"If you're an RSS junkie like I am, then your second most active program (after the browser) on the desktop is probably some form of RSS aggregator.
When I'm pressed for time - as seems to be most days now, a quick glance over the subscribed feeds in the morning prepares me for the day. My reading is a collection of weblogs and news feeds - much the same as I am sure your RSS aggregator feeds off.
But there is something missing....
Where is the Travelocity last minute travel feed for my New Years vacation, split into channels per location? See a vacation you like in your aggregator? Click on the link and 'buy now'. Yes it's advertising - but it's also information I happen to be interested in.
Where is the TOYS'R'US special offer channel for toys (with perhaps a separate channel per interest)?
Even O'Reilly has yet to catch on to what is possible. Why can't I get this as an RSS feed also? Or monitor new career opportunities from here using my aggregator?" [O'Reilly Network, via Scripting News]
I wouldn't want my aggregator to go wholly commercial so I'd have to be able to control this completely. But let's figure out the authentication side of this while we're at it so that I can one-click into my account with those sites.
Then, of course, I want recent additions to my home library's collection in subjects of my choosing.... [The Shifted Librarian]
12:28:53 PM
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Voice Over IP Goes Home.
From Slate, an article about Vonage, a new entrant in the Internet telephony market. The difference between these guys and the other players? Vonage lets you plug a regular telephone into your broadband connection - and voila - dial tone. Flat rate $40/month for unlimited calling, call waiting, voicemail, caller ID.
On its own, that's pretty revolutionary. (It would cut my monthly calling by about half.) But the more exciting prospects are that as this technology takes hold in the house, home telephones will actually get smarter. Think about telephone technology today - all of the innovation (if you can call it that) has gone into clearer signals without wires. The focus has been on the signal - not on the data. The only real evolution with home telephones has been Caller ID - and that's been around for nearly 10 years.
Once your phone calls are coming in over the Internet, phone handsets could simultaneously match an incoming call with the Google reverse lookup of the caller's name and address. Or let's say you call a pizza delivery service - at the same time you're calling, you could see an interactive menu on your screen. A few taps and you're done.
This kind of innovation already exists in the corporate market. One of my customers in the UK uses our software to provide a real-time feed to their VOIP handsets displaying the caller's name, profile, all activities the firm has had with the caller in the past 90 days, and other relevant data that makes the recipient of the call informed about who they're talking to. It's possible because the VOIP handset can send data via XML to our application server. (They match the incoming caller's number to our database, then use the search result match to send XML data back to the handset, which the handset then translates to presentable text. Very cool.)
Just think about what will happen when you can do the same from a home phone. [tins ::: Rick Klau's weblog]
11:14:45 AM
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Ok if outlines are about creating "really cool decentralized directory structures then I'm starting to catch on to their role.
R?rtoires d?ntralis?
OPML Directories. Mikel has directed my attention to Dave's revival of OPML files as directory structures in Sunday's edition of Scripting News. As Dave demonstrates, the 'inclusion' feature of OPML (the link and url node attributes) allow for a really cool decentralized directory structure, with different persons managing different levels of what appears to be a unique outline. This has a lot of potential. If you have activeRenderer installed with your copy of Radio, you can experience the same level of integration within your web browser as you can using Radio's outliner. Take a look at my OPML directories demo. [read more] [Marc Barrot: activeRenderer]
Very nice as a tool of collaboration... particularly at the moment where I am implementing a MultiAuthors Radio process. But, Marc, what if I want to have the  icon as illustration of the directory structure ? [Gilles en vrac...]
9:52:51 AM
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Microsoft 'X#' On Tap? One source close to the company said that Microsoft has held internal discussions to kick around ideas for XML-specific language, referred to internally as "X#." I have been thinking a programming language, based in XML, can open some very interesting possibilities. Such as, the ability to add user-level tools, on an XML instruction set, for easily manipulating and coordinating "Web Objects" into personalized, dynamic, web apps. [Brain Off]
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© Copyright 2003 Stephen Dulaney.
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