A product long rumored and whose very existence was long denied by Google itself finally launched: the Google browser, aka. Google Chrome. There are a number of things that are good and a few that leaves one scratching his head but ultimately, it is very clear that Google is working very hard to ensure that [...]
There has been much written about Steve Jobs’ keynote on Monday, introducing a new version of the iPhone, a rebranded version of .mac, and a new version of the OSX Operating System. However, amid all the praises, there seems to have been a few items missing from the discussion.
iPhone: 3G OK but not everywhere
As expected, [...]
Looking at the efforts Dave Winer is undertaking in terms of getting OPML to become yet another standard, I’ve been thinking about how formats get adopted. The key insight I came up with is that standards are actually a form of social contract and increasingly, data formats is following the same path.
Looking at the history
In [...]
After many years of using my own blog software, something I had written myself and tended to over the years, I finally threw the towel in and decided to upgrade. Here are a few things that I learned in the process.
Making the Decision
The first, and probably toughest, part of this migration was to actually make [...]
One of the things web developers keep going back to is trying to track user agents. However, many of the databases out there in the world seem to not have been updated for a while. As a result, it’s difficult to find what a developer needs. Finding a problem that needed fixing, I’ve taking it [...]
I keep trying to work on an entry to close the loop on the search engine and links research but RSS news is getting in the way. Last week, it was Microsoft’s welcome endorsement and a new set of extensions and this week, it’s Apple and its announcement of a new specification to add more [...]
The blogoshpere is buzzing about Microsoft’s announced support for RSS. Here’s a quick history of how they got there, and the good and bad on what they are adding to the standard.
How we got there?
Microsoft is not really a new player in the syndication space. With the release of Internet Explorer 4.0, in 1997, the [...]
Robert Scoble points to MSDN having issues with full entry RSS. What it comes down to is a capacity planning exercise.
In his note, he says that RSS is broken. I personally believe that at issue is not whether RSS is working or not. RSS is working but it has complicated the bandwidth issue. At issue [...]
It seemed like there was an issue with my email so I called my email provider to check into why I couldn’t get to their server. As a geek, I came prepared with a number of ping attempts, network mapping, etc… and learned that there is a major outage somewhere on an East Coast Time-Warner [...]
Like many other geeks, I’ve gotten a Gmail account but unlike most people, it took me less than 48 hours to render unoperational (and this time, it’s not a joke).
First of all, let me say that while it is an interesting package, it is not without flaws. For starters, the lack of indicator when the [...]
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