Archive for the 'feeds and syndication' Category

Keeping up with blogs the easy way

Sunday, August 17th, 2003

We’ve really got a long way to go to make it reasonable for someone to get started subscribing to RSS feeds, don’t we?

Is there a trademark lawyer in the house?

Sunday, August 3rd, 2003

It takes more than the existence of a record in TARR to make a registered trademark.

It’s linguistic convergence, I tell you

Sunday, August 3rd, 2003

Why doesn’t RSS 2.0 have an optional namespace for the core? It’s my fault. Why did extension use get branded “funky”? Oops, there’s a finger pointing at me, there, too.

Peach, apple, berry, key lime

Sunday, August 3rd, 2003

At the moment, there is a page on the !Echo/!Atom Wiki for NameFinalVote, which at the moment says voting closes August 15th, and at the moment features choices ranging from Barbwire (someone will immediately create an icon featuring Pamela Anderson’s implants in black leather, and I will use it) to Wyre (interview a random sample […]

quickSub and Syndication Subscription Service

Friday, August 1st, 2003

Two ways to offer one-click links to subscribe to your RSS feed, with a tough set of tradeoffs.

Fresh SharpReader

Tuesday, July 29th, 2003

New version of SharpReader, with less chance for nasty Javascript, fixed crashes in feeds without descriptions, and a start at a popup blocker. Among other things.

Two ways to subscribe to feeds in SharpReader

Tuesday, July 8th, 2003

Both simple, but sometimes even the simple escapes me.

Lightweight Mozilla RSS reader

Sunday, June 29th, 2003

A bookmark folder for subscriptions, a sidebar for titles, history for what’s read and unread: a 16KB RSS reader.

Say it loud, I’m funky and I’m proud

Wednesday, June 18th, 2003

The Funkidator, because we can’t all have Dave Winer tell us what he thinks of our feed.

RSS reader tidbits

Tuesday, June 17th, 2003

NetNewsWire goodies, and SharpReader feature wishes.