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Technorati lets you monitor blogs according to how they’re tagged, via building live self-updating charts. This doesn’t capture everything of course. Not every blogger adds specific tags to describe the details of the posts; and people user different tags to describe the same concepts. However, these charts probably do give a pretty good [...]
There’s currently a discussion going on between Elizabeth Lane Lawley and Robert Scoble centered on the question: do we need tools that let help people deal with large numbers of RSS/Atom feeds. Robert believe we do need such tools, and Elizabeth disagrees; she believes Robert is an edge-case. Elizabeth has put forward an intelligent and [...]
Sam Ruby, Mark Pilgrim, Joseph Walton, and Phil Ringnalda have kindly made a free service available for helping developers of sofwtare that generate RSS or Atom feeds. It’s called Feed Validator for Atom and RSS. For anyone that develops this kind of software, it’s a really useful service; assuming you want your RSS [...]
Lots of people, including Tim Bray have been commenting on the fact that Apple’s new photocasting feature in iPhoto does not extend and implement RSS in the most elegant of ways.
Now, of course, Tim is more than qualified to comment - it’s undeniable that he has an excellent understanding both of what makes “good” XML [...]
Today, Tim Bray said,
Whoever first provides a family-scheduling tool that non-geeks can use and Just Works with the tools most people run their calendars on is going to make a lot of money…
Of course he’s right. People need to be able to use different calendaring systems, edit their own and others’ calendars [...]