A bump, a fork or a widening of the RSS road?
Submitted by doc on Sat, 06/25/2005 - 15:57.
The Head Lemur says Microsoft is forking RSS.
Based on a quick look, in its current form I don't think I will write feeds that generate the extensions or write code that processes them.
However, I also want to be clear that I support the idea of Microsoft extending RSS 2.0, I am glad they're using it, very glad, and I totally appreciate that they are trying to work with the community on equal terms with everyone else. Yesterday in a video I recorded for the members of Team RSS at Microsoft, I congratulated them on a home run, and said I was totally proud of how they did it. Now here's an opportunity to make that home run a grand slam. With some quick work, while there still is no installed base, we can arrive at something that works for everyone and is as really simple as RSS 2.0 is.
One problem here is a semantic one. The Lemur is right that Microsoft has a long history of "embracing and extending" existing standards to its exclusive advantage. It's up to Microsoft partners in the RSS conversation to make clear how extensions to RSS aren't exclusive to Microsoft or Windows — or, if they are, how they don't lock anybody in or out of the development path for RSS.
London
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WTF
These comments are like rubbish
Sometimes
Sometimes I can't understand...
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Bullshit
Sorry but you are discussing bullshit
But other said
But other said that the judgement induces common sense, tertium non datur
Interesting
Interesting opinion. But IMHO it's just an opinion.
My experience
I have great experience in that. So I can understand...
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The autor has very good linguistic skills
Re: You seem confused
Yeah, I also noticed that
You seem confused
You seem confused. Anything wrong?
I have other point of view.
I have other point of view. Try to think about this post.
Sorry again
Sorry. Post that you have deleted was mine.
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I love the way you write. It's no wonder you have so many people reading your blog.
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Don't pay any attention at these stupid people.
Microsoft and IE4 vs IE 7
I used to work for MSN in Australia in the 90's and visited Seattle around IE4 time and implemented it in Australia.
Just listened to the Microsoft RSS podcast from Gnomedex and Adam Curry closing speech both of which I’d highly recommend.
Here’s a direct quote from Brad Chase, once of Microsoft at the launch of IE4 back in the day (at Gnomedex they were previewing IE 7)
Active Desktop was a pre-cursor to RSS - or a previous attempt at ‘push’ media : The difference today is the focus on consumers being able to ’subscribe’ to their favourite sites, who themselves will ensure their site is formatted in the right RSS (or Microsoft ?) format to ensure subscription can occur seamlessly. Active Channels had a handful of ‘professional’ content sites (to quote Steve Jobs on ‘professional’ podcasters)
Curry made an impassioned plea to let consumers ‘get their media back’ and also pushed that all industry players should be pushing for one click subscription. I’d recommend his talk over Steve Jobs ‘Stay Foolish Stay Hungry’ any day - His ‘every user is a developer, and every developer is a user’ is on the money at this juncture of RSS.
From Brad Chase @ IE4 launch many years ago : Microsoft is focused on “a newer way of getting information, some people call it push, we call it sometimes Webcasting. It’s the ability to have Web sites delivered to you. So not only do we think primarily people want to browse, but we also believe there’s a set of people that want content to come to them. I know that I travel a lot, for example. And so it’s really convenient for me to be able to take a set of sites, download them onto my notebook and browse them right on the plane, even though I’m not connected.