Archive for May, 2005

Feedburner Media RSS Support - and soon Structured Blogging

Friday, May 13th, 2005

Richard MacManus has a great write-up on Feedburner supporting Media RSS and soon - Structured blogging.
What a coincidence - two projects we’re getting involved in!

Micro-content publishing and Kottke.org

Wednesday, May 11th, 2005

Though he never mentions micro-content, micro-formats or structured blogging - Jason Kottke is clearly doing all three now - officially over at Kottke.org.
At first glance at his blog, you see seperate blog posts that are lists of links, reviews, ratngs lists, QotD (quotes of the day) or plain old vanilla blog posts.
Jason has just added […]

Google buys Dodgeball

Wednesday, May 11th, 2005

OK - so first you graduate from Clay Shirky’s exclusive school of thought, eat the red pill, drink some koolaid and do something Clay thinks is cool.
Then you use the blogosphere to launch - but you never really achieve critical mass - but that’s OK. As long as Cory Doctorow or Xeni think it’s cool […]

ID Gang

Wednesday, May 11th, 2005

The ID Gang met on Monday - right before DIDW.
We discussed providing a governance and technical due diligence entity that could keep Microsoft honest in their upcoming identity standard efforts - InfoCards.
I’ve referred to InfoCards as a “big momma identity backplane” - which enables any sort of identity system - to jack into […]

Yes movie premiere - June 12th

Tuesday, May 10th, 2005

Mark Pincus and friends - including me - are hosting a premiere of an Indie film with Joan Allen called “Yes”. The idea is that the blogosphere can help launch the film.
June 12th at the Delancy screening room.
Music by Phil Glass.

Darknet

Tuesday, May 10th, 2005

Come celebrate the launch of JD Lasica’s new book - Darknet this Friday.
My email has been down all day - so sorry to those who have gotten back bounced mail from me. Stayed home and am working on it - babysitting my mail server to bring it back to life.
Anyway - Mary got me […]

How come there aren’t any Laszlo folks at the Ajax summit?

Tuesday, May 10th, 2005

Were they even invited? But Kevin Lynch is there?
It’s so satisfying to hear about folks waking up to how limited HTML is and how much can be done with Ajax.
Macromedia calls it RIAs, Laszlo uses that term too - we always called it “rich media interfaces” - but regardless of the term - Laszlo […]

Cyworld

Sunday, May 8th, 2005

I’ve been tracking Cyworld - ever since I first heard about it last year. They’ve grown to 13M members and make $200k a day from selling digital “items” for one’s “mini-home”.
These digital items are just bits - no interactivity, Tamagouchi digital life or anything.
And Cyworld is also Korea’s largest music downloading service -selling music […]

Why I’m not using Backpack

Saturday, May 7th, 2005

I was all jazzed to join and use Backpack - as it’s a key function of a DLA - having a virtual storage place for random, notes. etc.
But they want to charge me for storing photos.
Well dudes - I’m a media guy and there ain’t no way in HELL I’m using Backpack if I can’t […]

XSPF MP3 player

Saturday, May 7th, 2005

Lucas Gonze and the XSPF (XML shared playlist format) are getting uptake. They worked on it for a ful year and now it’s all happening.
Here’s a MusicPlayer for MP3s at SourceForge that uses XSPF.
Perhaps XSPF could be extended to other kinds of collections?
Is there a format for slide shows? Or albums? Greg?
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