Disclaimer: This is not spec text.
Okay, so you’re busy and you’d like to get a quick implementation of RSS up asap and have it work with the largest number of feed readers and aggregators. Coool. Here are some tips for that will make your work go more smoothly, based on the experience of real developers.
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Archive for the ‘RSS’ Category
8 Mar
A Busy Developer’s Guide to RSS 2.0
7 Mar
Ray Ozzie’s clipboard for the web
Ray Ozzie’s new idea is a clipboard for the web. A brief summary of the idea follows; it’s fully explained on Ray’s blog, with screen casts. I watched #1 and #3.
Narrative
Let’s say you have two sites both of which understand calendar data. I want to move an appointment from one site to another. In Ray’s [...]
25 Feb
Why the backchannel is bad for RSS
This is a verbatim copy of an emal I sent to Brad Feld of Mobius Venture Capital.
Brad, I appreciate you taking a proactive role, but there’s something that’s not right about all this — we need to get out of the backchannel and have this discussion in public. So many reasons for it.
1. People, rightly, [...]
22 Feb
How much has been invested in RSS?
In yesterday’s piece I wrote of the RSS 2.0 roadmap: “There’s a huge community that has invested billions of dollars around its assumptions.”
Sounds good, but while I was riding on the BART yesterday for a lunch appointment in San Francisco I wondered if it’s true, and if so, how you’d come up with an estimate [...]
20 Feb
Notes for groups interested in RSS
Last night I posted several notes in response to a post by Paul Montgomery. We’re at an interesting point in the life of RSS, where several small companies, Newsgator, SixApart, SocialText, Feedburner and Technorati may be trying to control the evolution of the format.
1. I think the Roadmap of the RSS 2.0 spec provides very [...]
9 Feb
How the NY Times came to support RSS
The history of RSS is usually told only in one dimension, it’s the story of geeks fighting with geeks, so they say, but in my humble opinion, that’s really not the story.
Most of the vocal people on the mail lists, blogs and wikis are more fans than creators. It’s as if we confused baseball players [...]
5 Feb
How RSS can bust through
Fred Wilson says “RSS has to become brain-dead simple to use.”
I’m pretty sure we can do it, but it would require the companies to give up hope of locking users into their software, into their extensions, their mistakes.
How RSS can bust through
There are two barriers to brain-dead simplicity.
1. It must be easy to [...]
2 Feb
Scott, they need a River
Scott Karp: “I tried RSS in IE7, and it highlights the true shortcoming of current RSS applications — it’s really not much of an improvement over ‘favorites’ or ‘bookmarks.’”
Bing!
Scott says what I’ve been saying over and over. You need a different kind of aggregator and then you’ll get a benefit from RSS. The way most [...]
31 Jan
Microsoft ships RSS platform
This morning Microsoft has released a public beta of version 7 of their Internet Explorer web browser, aimed at developers, although I’m sure a lot of tech-savvy and adventurous users will download and install it as well.
This release is significant for publishers who provide RSS 2.0 feeds for their content because this is the [...]
26 Jan
Yahoo game-changers for 2006
Yesterday I participated in a Yahoo management offsite at the spectacular Ritz-Carlton Hotel in Half Moon Bay. They invited two outsiders, myself and Om Malik, to come discuss the new ideas of 2006 with them. They asked what I thought would be the game-changers. They were interested not only in ways they could change the [...]
