Microsoft exec defends RSS rebranding – Renaming to ‘Web feeds’ spurs debate among bloggers Another day, another story…Microsoft Rethinks RSS Name Change Continue Reading
Microsoft exec defends RSS rebranding – Renaming to ‘Web feeds’ spurs debate among bloggers Another day, another story…Microsoft Rethinks RSS Name Change Continue Reading
From Google: About Feeds and Terms of Use: “Google News section feeds: You can get a feed for any Google News section. For instance, if you select a feed link while you’re on the Business page, you’ll get a feed of business news. Google News search results feeds: You can also get a feed for… Continue Reading
What is RSS and Why Should I Care?, presented by Marianne Lenox, Staff Training and Development Coordinator, Huntsville Madison County Public Library, July 2005. [Peter Scott] Continue Reading
Public Awareness of Internet Terms, 7/20/2005: “The average American internet user is not sure what podcasting is, what an RSS feed does, or what the term phishing means.” The data memo is 7 pages, PDF. Continue Reading
Driven to distraction by technology: “The typical office worker is interrupted every three minutes by a phone call, e-mail, instant message or other distraction. The problem is that it takes about eight uninterrupted minutes for our brains to get into a really creative state.” See also RSS Goes Corporate – Information overload also affects companies,… Continue Reading
RSS 2.0 and Atom 1.0, Compared: “People who generate syndication feeds have a choice of feed formats. As of mid-2005, the two most likely candidates will be RSS 2.0 and Atom 1.0. The purpose of this page is to summarize, as clearly and simply as possible, the differences between the RSS 2.0 and Atom 1.0… Continue Reading
Selected PowerPoint presentations of sessions from the Business & Finance Division, Information Technology Division, Military Librarians Division, and Science-Technology Division, from the SLA 2005 Conference, Toronto, Ontario CANADA, June 5-8, 2005 are available free at via this Link. Continue Reading
This New York Times article discusses the growing interest in, and testing of, delivering adverts to consumers via RSS feeds, which may in some measure be an inevitable result of the hype the technology has been receiving from both the blogging and MSM communities. Despite a strong current of opposition in some quarters to using… Continue Reading
The Microsoft Development Center has extensive and detailed documentation on RSS implementation in Longhorn: “This paper describes RSS in the context of a vision for how web content is and will be consumed, explores opportunities enabled by incorporating RSS functionality into applications and outlines the Windows platform services that make this easy.” See also RSS… Continue Reading
What is the future for Web sites in a world of RSS? by Matt McAlister, VP & General Manager, Online, InfoWorld. [Micro Persuasion] “We’ve all joined onto a platform, a common standard for pushing/pulling/sharing individual items. Those items might be news headlines, transaction data, persistent search queries, links to downloads, etc. And because we have… Continue Reading
Nick Bradbury’s May 20 post, RSS, Spam and Spyware, raises significant questions about security and privacy issues arising from the push for RSS ubiquity. Scroll down and read the comments as well. Continue Reading
Follow-up to my April 29, 2005 posting: New Justia Web Site Enables Consumers to Easily Track Auto Recalls: “Justia, an innovative provider of legal marketing services and resources for law firms, today announced the launch of a comprehensive auto recalls center (http://auto-recalls.justia.com) with free RSS feeds of National Highway Traffic Safety Administration auto recalls for… Continue Reading