Tag: dave_winer

  • Microsoft – a wolf in wolf's clothing?

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    In June 2005 Microsoft announced their support for RSS. At the time it seemed like a good thing that Microsoft were embracing this standard, however, it was Microsoft after all. I should have known there was a more sinister motive behind it. Today, according to an article in News.com, Microsoft has filed two patent applications…

  • Microsoft becoming more open?

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    Microsoft made two major announcements overnight – the first is an announcement by Microsoft CTO Ray Ozzie that Microsoft are extending RSS under a Creative Commons licence, and calling the extended RSS, Simple Sharing Extensions or SSE. Russell Beattie likes it: Adding in SSE namespace could then in theory allow *any* data contained in an…

  • New Audible podcasting format – why bother?

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    I have recently started to take an interest podcasting again – I produced a few podcasts during the summer to dip my toes into podcasting but I had to stop when the soundcard on my PowerBook blew. Recently, I have recorded a couple of my talks and podcast them with generous help from FrankP and…

  • Scoble is disruptive!

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    Robert Scoble wrote a significant post in his blog yesterday calling on Microsoft and Google to Clone the Google API. In a nutshell, Robert went to see a Microsoft customer company called Zvents (an online events listing company). When he asked them why they aren’t using Microsoft’s Virtual Earth on their site, (or Yahoo! Maps…

  • More on Google Print

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    Google Print continues to excite comment. Damien Mulley came out against Google Print today quoting Dave Winer’s argument that it should be opt-in, not opt-out. I disagree. If Google had taken that approach to websites, they would never have become the useful resource they are now. This also misses the point that for the majority…

  • RSS usability problems re-discovered!

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    Robert Scoble has written a post bemoaning the lack of standards in using RSS feeds and the consequent confusion which this causes : Some sites use RSS icons. Most that I visit use the orange XML icon. But other sites don’t have any icon and instead use words like “subscribeâ€? or “feedâ€? or “web feed.â€?…

  • Blog for sale – apply within!

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    I see on Dave Winer’s blog that he has confirmed the rumour that he sold Weblogs.com to Versign – he neglected to say how much for! The rumour mill is putting a figure of ~$5m on it. Couple that with the news that AOL are buying Weblobsinc.com for somewhere between $25-$40m, and the news of…