Posts Tagged HTTP
Standards as social contracts
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 […]
Capacity planning and RSS
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 […]
The case for Elert
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 […]
Extending the Olive Branch
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 […]
Microsoft Lock-in?
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 […]
Securing SOAP
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 […]
Wireless: A confusing Landscape
The lack of clear standardization and leader is impeding the progress of mobile internet technology.
