Posts from January 2004

AtomEnabled is the new site for everything about Atom. There is a special area for developers with detailed information. Last night Blogger announced support for Atom. I have an Atom feed. I tweaked my RSS feed a few times, and now that Atom information is more easily obtainable I might start tweaking Atom a bit as well. After tweaking my feed makes its way through the FeedValidator to make sure everything is well formatted. My Atom feed gets less hits (6% of aggregator traffic) than my unpublished (Meta reference only) RSS 1.0 feed. (11%) RSS 2.0 accounts for 83% of...

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Orkut Buyukkokten, a UI designer at Google, quietly put online today a social networking site named Orkut.com. According to News.com this social software was Orkut's personal project at Google, one day a week, but remains the property of Google. Membership is currently invite only....

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Presidential Market 2004 is a simulated futures market allowing you to buy and sell shares of the major 2004 presidential candidates. The highest valued portfolio on election day wins a trip to the inauguration in Washington, D.C....

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Tom McNichol of The NY Times covers the growing practice of Google bombing: engineering search results to your whim....

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Apple now has its music store offerings available as a customizable RSS feed. Interested in the top rock songs? How about rock, alternative, and pop?...

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Eurekster is a new search engine, currently in beta, that uses your defined social network to rank search results from Overture based on the search history of you and your network of friends. The social networking technology comes from RealContacts and the personalization technology is provided by SLI Systems....

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Scoble is wondering what Microsoft could do to evangelize Windows XP to users of Windows 98. My comment entry was getting a bit long, so I will post it here instead. Ask the average user and they have no clue when the support life of Windows 98 ends and why that might matter to them. I assume that Windows 98 users are mostly home users. The real question is will my stuff still work, how much will it cost me, and is all this change worth the chance that my stuff will not work as it is supposed to? What...

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President Bush has just concluded his 2004 State of the Union address. The White House published the transcript online....

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Today I changed my RSS feed from excerpt to full text. I did not realize this was the default MovableType setting, but I do appreciate full text in other people's feeds, especially for offline viewing. I would like to follow the best practices of blogging and incorporate any community tools that are out there, so please let me know if there is something I should be aware of....

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IBM filed a patent application last week for a "method and apparatus for conducting business via the worldwide Web in which business programming is isolated from Web user interface programming." Can JSP + Java Beans + J2EE backend really be patented? Guess we will have to wait and see....

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