Category Archives: Feed aggregators

Mediathink RSS White Paper

Mediathink produced a white paper on RSS publishing. The study takes a look at the current aggregator space for the Windows operating system. The study found RSS to be a strong threat to e-mail and established search companies slow to respond the corporate intelligence and product research uses of RSS. Rich media RSS is discussed as an inevitable next step and integrated into TiVo-like devices (with BitTorrent possibilities). We see RSS as the single best method available to receive information from selected sources. RSS possesses the unique ability to eliminate the usual chores of search, navigation, and interruptive marketing avoidance…

Firefox Live Bookmarks

I just downloaded the Firefox 1.0 Preview Release. A new feature called Live Bookmarks allows you to subscribe and read RSS and Atom feeds in your bookmarks. A button appears in your status bar to let you know there has been an alternate source detected and the MIME type is supported by Live Bookmarks. A blue folder appears in your bookmark folder with an individual bookmark for each item or entry in your feed. I like the placement of the icon in the status bar instead of in the address bar like Safari RSS. Another branding win for the RSS…

RFC3229 for partial feed retrieval

Bob Wyman, CTO of PubSub, details how RFC3229, “Delta Encoding in HTTP,” could be used to help solve the bandwidth problem of syndicated feeds. In order to allow the number of entries returned in a feed to be no more than the total number of new or modified inserted into the feed since the last time any specific client retrieved the feed, I propose that we rely on RFC3229 “Delta encoding in HTML” with a new instance-manipulation method defined to provide feed specific delta encoding….

Safari RSS at Apple Expo 2004

Today during the Apple keynote at the Apple Expo in Philip Schiller, Apple’s senior vice president of Worldwide Product Marketing, spent about 6 minutes discussing Safari RSS and why users should be excited about interacting with RSS instead of their standard HTML sites. Check out the keynote in QuickTime and skip to the 59th minute to watch the Safari RSS demo….

IETF Forms New Atom Working Group

IETF Atom working group is now official. “The proposed WG schedule calls for release of initial Internet Drafts for the Atom Feed Format and Atom Editing Protocol in June 2004. These Internet Drafts would be submitted approval as Last Call drafts in March 2005, and would be submitted to the IESG for consideration as Proposed Standards in April 2005.”…