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Interop: the future of hardware

December 4, 2011

Why open stan­dards are the future of con­sumer electronics.

Standards as social contracts

June 7, 2006

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 order […]

Capacity planning and RSS

September 9, 2004

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 is […]

The case for Elert

February 23, 2004

A few weeks ago, Amy Gahran, of contentious.com, started a con­test to find a new nick­name for RSS. I sub­mit­ted Elert as my entry. Today, I found that it’s one of the top entries in terms of votes but I need help get­ting it to the top. This is where you, gen­tly read­ers, come in. Please vote for Elert! Here’s why […]

Extending the Olive Branch

July 19, 2003

Con­grat­u­la­tions to Dave Winer for real­iz­ing that his per­son­al­ity had become a polar­iz­ing force in the RSS dis­cus­sions and for basi­cally giv­ing RSS 2.0 to the com­mu­nity. There is really noth­ing I can say that really expresses how amaz­ing I find this move. By putting the spec­i­fi­ca­tion under an Attribution/Share Alike Cre­ative Com­mons license, Dave has essen­tially man­age to […]

Microsoft Lock-in?

June 3, 2003

The recent announce­ment of a part­ner­ship between AOL Time Warner and Microsoft rep­re­sents an inter­est­ing new twist in the shap­ing of the Inter­net. For the past few years, Microsoft has been try­ing to fig­ure out how to remain rel­e­vant in an era of increas­ing open­ness. The rise of HTML and of HTTP as the under­ly­ing protocol […]

Securing SOAP

February 20, 2001

The lead­ing con­tender for the com­mu­ni­ca­tions pro­to­col that facil­i­tates the world’s busi­ness trans­ac­tions is designed to trans­mit data over HTTP, in the clear. Although some of the cre­ators of Sim­ple Object Access Pro­to­col (SOAP) have expressed con­cern, the con­sor­tium respon­si­ble for redraft­ing SOAP into the new Exten­si­ble Markup Lan­guage (XML) Pro­to­col is near­ing agree­ment that […]

Wireless: A confusing Landscape

March 4, 2000

The lack of clear stan­dard­iza­tion and leader is imped­ing the progress of mobile inter­net technology.

RSS Manipulation in ASP

December 17, 1999

There is cur­rently no ASP parser for RSS so here’s how to do it.