Microsoft will launch a trial weblog service in Japan on August 10 followed by an official launch later this year. The service will be powered by T.O.S Co., Ltd and Microsoft aims to have one million users in its first year. My guess is the weblog service will be an extension of the ASP-based home page software T.O.S already has: Maho no I-land….
Category Archives: Software
Public Patent Foundation: Linux potentially infringes 283 patents
The Public Patent Foundation has found that version 2.4 and 2.6 of the Linux kernel potentially violate 283 not yet court-validated patents. 98 of the patents are owned by Linux allies such as Cisco, HP, IBM, Intel, Novell, Oracle, Red Hat, and Sony. IBM holds 60 patents, HP holds 20 patents and Intel holds 11 patents. The kernel potentially violates 27 Microsoft patents. Open Source Risk Management has a PDF press release on the Public Patent Foundation’s findings….
IBM alphaWorks aDesigner
aDesigner is a disability simulator that helps Web designers “test the accessibility and usability of Web pages for low-vision and blind people.” Only available on Windows 2000 and Windows XP….
MSN, AOL, and Yahoo! to interoperate on instant messaging software
News.com reports Microsoft Live Communications Server 2005 will allow corporate users of AOL Instant Messenger, Yahoo! Messenger and MSN Messenger to communicate. Microsoft will pay AOL and Yahoo a royalty for connecting to Live Communications Server….
Bloglines introduces clip blogs
Bloglines revealed a new user interface last night, as well as a new feature for adding an item to your “clippings” and posting to a blog. The clipping service uses the link and the title element….
Mac OS X Server 10.4 Tiger serves weblogs
Mac OS X Server version 10.4 (codename Tiger) will feature a weblog server. The Weblog server provides users with calendar-based navigation and customizable themes, is fully compatible with Safari RSS and enables posting entries using built-in web-based functionality or with weblog clients that support XML-RPC or the ATOM API. The Weblog Server, based on the popular open source project “Blojsom,” works with Open Directory for user accounts and authentication….
Mac OS X Tiger: Safari RSS
Mac OS X Tiger, Apple’s next operating system release, will include a RSS aggregator as part of Safari. Support for “RSS 0.9, RSS 1, RSS 2 and Atom.” Apple has a movie online demonstrating the new RSS functions. Interesting that Atom is a side note on a supported format list. What does the bundling of an RSS aggregator with a Mac OS mean for independent software developers? Safari RSS, in its current form, looks like Bloglines. Desktop applications will have a year to innovate and make their products more attractive to power users. There is still room for applications…
Apple OS X 10.4 (Tiger) targeting Microsoft Longhorn
Gizmodo has a picture from Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference of banners directly targeted at Microsoft and its upcoming Longhorn operating system….
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.”…
Mac DevCenter reviews OS X RSS software
Giles Turnbull of Mac DevCenter reviews three RSS software applications for Mac OS X: NetNewsWire, Pulp Fiction and Shrook. (via Scripting News) I am still waiting on NetNewsWire 2.0, due any day now….