Sony’s PSP gaming device now supports RSS feeds. The RSS Channel is presented to users above the web browsing option in version 2.6 or above of Sony’s PSP system software. Users can add feeds by clicking on a link to an advertised feed in their web browser. The mobile RSS aggregator is specially designed for downloading podcasts in MP3 or AAC format. The channel list and streaming media is saved on Memory Stick Duo media. Only the RSS 2.0 syndication format is currently supported. Sony has a special page for developers documenting their aggregator’s handling of RSS. Russell Beattie…
Category Archives: Software
Simple Sharing Extensions for NetNewsWire
I created a Simple Sharing Extensions exporter for NetNewsWire followed links as a proof of concept. The OPML SSE exporter is written in AppleScript. It iterates through each subscription feed and its items, outputting every feed and the descriptive data about the items you have opened in a browser. If you are a Mac user with NetNewsWire installed you can download the AppleScript or view some of the outputted OPML. Example output <outline type=”feed” text=”Greg Reinacker” htmlUrl=”http://www.rassoc.com/gregr/weblog” description=”Greg Reinacker: Greg Reinacker’s Weblog” xmlUrl=”http://www.rassoc.com/gregr/weblog/rss.aspx”> <outline type=”item” text=”NewsGator acquires NetNewsWire” htmlUrl=”http://www.rassoc.com/gregr/weblog/archive.aspx?post=783″ created=”Tue, 4 Oct 2005 01:27:16 GMT” /> <sx:sync id=”http://www.rassoc.com/gregr/weblog/archive.aspx?post=783″ version=”1″> <sx:history…
Microsoft announces Simple Sharing Extensions
Ray Ozzie announced Simple Sharing Extensions for RSS and OPML this morning. Ray explains on his weblog the need to synchronize data such as contacts, calendaring, and read status on a wide range of devices across multiple profiles such as personal, family, and professional. The new namespace is the first extension of OPML I know of. Ray mentions there “nothing to announce right now in terms of which [Microsoft] products will support the spec, when, and for what purpose, but people are experimenting with it and are intrigued.” The acronym “SSE” makes me think of Intel’s Streaming SIMD Extensions processor…
FeedBurner State of RSS report
FeedBurner just published a report on the current state of RSS and Atom syndication formats across a variety of publisher types with varying goals. The graphic above helps illustrate the difference between feed search and blog search. While the two used to be almost one and the same, blog search focuses on just blogs and podcasts and not commercial publishers, web services, watchlists, and other peer-produced content. I think the report was a bit light on monetizing subscribers, so I hope FeedBurner addresses advertising in syndication feeds as its next market report topic. Tags: atom, rss…
Google Base blog import instructions
Google Base launched last Tuesday as a new repository of information for distribution across Google’s network of sites including Google search, Froogle, and Google Local. You can add your existing content to the Google Base for broad distribution with only a few easy steps. I’ll show you how. You need a Google account associated with Google Base to submit items. Sign-in to Google Base to get started. Complete your extended profile. Market yourself with your full name or the name of your site, a description up to 400 characters in length, your URL, location and contact information. Create a…
W3C Feed Validator
The W3C now has a feed validator based on the open source software feedvalidator. I like the support for direct input as well as its close proximity to the HTML markup validator. They also have an open SOAP 1.2 API for validation via a web service. Tags: atom, rss…
Ray Ozzie is blogging again
Ray Ozzie, CTO of Microsoft and leader of Microsoft’s service business, is now blogging on MSN Spaces. MSN Spaces is one of the many Microsoft services receiving an overhaul as part of Windows Live. Ray’s former company, Groove, was one of the first companies to introduce a blogging policy. Groove’s policy has guided the policy of other companies in the many years since it was first introduced. I had to point to a copy of Ray’s previous blog at the Internet Archive because all of his previous blog entries now redirect to his Spaces blog homepage. Please don’t lose the…
Outlook 12 RSS support in latest beta
The latest version of Office, 12.0.3111.1010, has hit the peer-to-peer networks and developer Alexander Gorlach has posted his first impressions and detailed screenshots of the subscription and reading interface. Microsoft throttles the feed update rate and respects the TTL element. Users can override this update limit which could be pretty scary as RSS updates are currently integrated with the standard send/receive function along with e-mail and most e-mail is checked every 5 minutes or so. Outlook 12 also supports the ability to download all enclosures for a subscription, regardless of the file type. Enclosures can deliver some nasty payloads to…
MSN.com testing new site
MSN has a new beta version of its homepage online with a cleaner look and easy to find links to other areas of MSN. The site does not look too great on Safari or Firefox but the site should be of interest as it will likely become the default homepage for millions of users. Tags: msn…
Full text of Microsoft executive memos about service offerings
Dave Winer just posted the full text of memos sent by Microsoft’s Bill Gates and Ray Ozzie to Microsoft executives announcing the company’s new services strategy. Both executives are very frank about Microsoft’s failure to properly capitalize on the latest online trends, including many technologies pioneered by Microsoft. Ray Ozzie encourages updates in MSN and Windows Update to “better serve a broad range of highly-influential early adopters.” The entire plan is not yet complete, but corporate executives are working towards a December 15 deadline to outline next steps and product revisions. Thanks Dave for tracking down these documents and taking…