Posts Tagged ‘RSS’
Check this out: Podcasting Professionals
I'm attending the WordPress DK meetup 2.3 right now, where good friend Karin Høgh is introducing online feed reader Podcasting Professionals.
Looks interesting…
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I'm using FeedBurner
I've just created myself a profile at FeedBurner to make it power my RSS2 feed on this blog.
Just add this URL to your feed reader:
http://feeds.feedburner.com/newmediait
Thanks :)
Related postsTags: About this blog, RSS
No more del.icio.us posts
I've decided to post no my del.icio.us-posts to my blog. Here are the reasons:
- Right now it just keeps failing and no posts get through. I have no idea what happened
- I bookmark a lot of stuff that isn't new media and/or it related and that messes up this blog
- Some of the bookmarks are Danish which makes no sense to my international readers
So, if you still want to follow my bookmarks go to del.icio.us/larskjensen or use this feed url to stay updated on my bookmarks:
http://del.icio.us/rss/larskjensen
Related postsTags: About this blog, del.icio.us, Feeds, RSS
Quite a lot of unread posts…
Guess what I'm gonna be doing the next 132 hours?
Microsoft replies on RSS patent story
Via Geek News Central I found out, that Microsoft actually has replied to the story, posts and rumours on the RSS reader patent.
Read Microsoft's Sean Lyndersay's post on it. He's "Program Manager Lead, RSS" at Microsoft.
He doesn't however, in my view, really tell us why they have applied for the patent. The closest he gets to that are in these two paragraphs:
First, these patents describe specific ways to improve the RSS end-user and developer experience (which we believe are valuable and innovative contributions) — they do not constitute a claim that Microsoft invented RSS.
[...]
Finally, as a number of commenters have noted, we are far from the only company to apply for patent protection in this space. Other companies, including Apple and Google, have apparently also applied for patents. Applying for a patent on your innovation is common industry practice, and one which, by incenting and protecting the companies and people involved, encourages everyone to contribute to the community.
But read it and decide for yourself, what you think and/or make of it.
However, I still don't get why Microsoft feel that they want to patent it. There are loads of various RSS readers out there…?
Update 1: And of course a merry Christmas to all of you :D
Related postsTags: Feeds, Microsoft, Patents, RSS
Microsoft trying to patent RSS feeds reader?
I just saw the article "Microsoft seeks patent covering Web feed readers" at ZDNet.
Apparently Microsoft is seeking a patent covering:
»A content syndication platform, such as a web content syndication platform, manages, organizes and makes available for consumption content that is acquired from the Internet. In at least some embodiments, the platform can acquire and organize web content, and make such content available for consumption by many different types of applications. These applications may or may not necessarily understand the particular syndication format. An application program interface (API) exposes an object model which allows applications and users to easily accomplish many different tasks such as creating, reading, updating, deleting feeds and the like.« – From the abstract.
It seems weird to me, if Microsoft indeed is trying to patent a web based reader for RSS feeds, since Microsoft has practically nothing to do with the invention of RSS according to the history of RSS.
A funny fact is this (from the ZDNet article):
Redmond actually filed for the patents on June 21, 2005. That date, incidentally, is just three days prior to the company's formal announcement that it planned to build support for RSS into the next version of its Internet Explorer browser and into its planned Windows Vista operating system–then referred to as Longhorn.
But maybe this is an entirely new way to handle feeds, I'm not sure. Also, I'm not sure that seeking a patent is a way to keep it evolving… Things/technologies usually don't move too fast, if only one company is working on it.
Other must-read posts on this subject:
Dave Winer - "A tale of corporate atrocity"
Nick Bradbury - "Microsoft's "Content syndication platform" Patent"
Update 1: David Berlind @ ZDNet has also blogged on this in his post "On the fifth day of Christmas, Microsoft gave to me Rrrrrrrrrr Ssssssssssssss Sssssss?" (great post title by the way, David :-))
Update 2: Cnet has an article on the subject
Update 3: Sam Semiei - "Microsoft seeks patent covering Web feed readers"
Update 4: Kristian Beyer has done a great post (in Danish), that is a little more in depth on the subject on his blog Innovationpartners.
Technorati search on 'microsoft rss patent'
Related postsTags: Microsoft, Patents, RSS, Web-feeds
Technorati adds search RSS'ing
I'm not sure when Technorati added this feature (which Google Blog Search has had for some time), but now it's possible to add any search as an RSS feed.
Feed for a search on "New Media"….nifty!
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