Archives for the "HTTP" tag
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 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 [...]
Tags: HTML, HTTP, History, Linux, RSS, Standard, Syndication, XML
In Technology
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 believe that at issue is not whether RSS is working or not. RSS is working but it has complicated the bandwidth issue. At issue [...]
Tags: HTTP
In Technology
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 in terms of votes but I need help getting it to the top. This is where you, gently readers, come in. [...]
Tags: HTTP
In Analysis
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 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 [...]
Tags: HTTP
In Technology
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 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 [...]
Tags: Computing, HTML, HTTP, Intel, Linux, Microsoft, Telephony, Verizon, digital media
In Business, Technology
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 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 [...]
Tags: API, HTTP, Microsoft, OS, XML, web services
In Technology
