• USM Under Firefox/Linux

    Posted on February 3, 2005

    Randy seems to have some momentum going for his Universal Subscription Mechanism proposal. The basic idea is that we deal with some content types specific to RSS and Atom so that the browser can shove the handling off to an external app that then push the subscribe URL into something... [Read More]

  • Symbian OS 9

    Posted on February 3, 2005

    The most major news item in mobility yesterday seems to be the new release of Symbian OS. The 9.0 version doesn’t really include many new features that affect the end user, as called out in a post at TheFeature. The USB mass storage feature will actually be pretty cool, but... [Read More]

  • 106miles Event Feb 8th

    Posted on February 2, 2005

    There’s a new networking group, called 106miles, operating in the Silicon Valley area. I missed the first meeting, but the second meeting is going to be February 8th at 7pm. Here’s an excerpt from their description: [Read More]

  • Feedster Facelift

    Posted on February 2, 2005

    The Feedster site has a new look, mostly implemented by Michael Fagan. I have a horrible eye for layout and saw too many pre-1996 designs to be able to distinguish between the better of two somewhat modern options. But even considering my unrefined judgment, the new look is obviously much... [Read More]

  • AttentionXML

    Posted on February 1, 2005

    Steve Gillmor was over at the EBig RSS and Blogging SIG, talking about attention.xml. The format was pretty free form, very participatory. He was pulling people out of the audience and asking them questions. The audio should be up on ITConversations. Here are some notes. [Read More]

  • CodeCon Schedule

    Posted on January 31, 2005

    The CodeCon schedule was released yesterday. CodeCon is a conference that runs Feb 11th thru 13th 2005 in San Francisco. I’m planning to go. There’s a list of topics also, if you just want to see what’s going to be talked about. What really caught my eye this time? The... [Read More]

  • Open Source SIP Stack

    Posted on January 31, 2005

    I was just digging through some old news I marked down but never read, and just noticed the release of an open-source, reference SIP stack that engineers can tap when developing VoIP and other SIP-enabled equipment designs. The effort seems to be progressing through an organization called SIPfoundry. Here’s an... [Read More]

  • EFF Endangered Gizmos List

    Posted on January 31, 2005

    The EFF has created a list of technologies that are being threatened or outlawed in the interest of protecting established corporate interests: [Read More]

  • Tags are the New Black

    Posted on January 29, 2005

    I’ve been paying attention to the discussions about tagging (or folksonomies depending on who you talk to). Some of the concepts are very appealing. I’ve been using del.icio.us and Flickr and Buzznet long enough to understand the usage patterns there. But the recent addition of tagging to Technorati has really... [Read More]

  • Earthquake RSS

    Posted on January 29, 2005

    I was sitting at the office and thought I felt the building shaking. It might have been a truck, or the building settling, or an earthquake. So I went over to the USGS earthquake maps, a very cool resource. Must have been something other than an earthquake, but I still... [Read More]