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I just spoke with Amar Gandhi and Sean Lyndersay of Microsoft at Gnomedex. They'll revise their spec in response to concerns reported by Phil Ringnalda. This turns yesterday's home run into a grand slam. A huge cargo ship in Puget Sound. Movie of the room at Gnomedex during the Microsoft announcement. Googlefight: RSS vs Jesus. Dan Farber: Gnomedexers gather around RSS. I'm sitting next to Frank Barnako, a very fast two-finger typer, taking notes on all that's said. I asked if he has anything to say to Scripting News people. "Hi mom." Heh. Steve, it's darkest just before dawn. Jason Calacanis: "If I was CEO of Technorati or Feedster there is no way I would ever dump my entire business into an uncontrolled cloud." BTW, Weblogs.com has always had an open back-end, we share all the data we generate, since its inception since 1999. On Friday we got 1.1 million pings. Technorati got all its data from us for their first few years (not sure how much they get now). As far as I know Technorati's back-end is also open, that was one of the conditions of our continuing to keep our back-end open. If it's true that they've gone closed we have an issue with them.
Microsoft: Simple List Extensions Specification. Quick postscript on the Microsoft extensions to RSS 2.0.
Steve, I totally don't agree that developers have to support the Longhorn aggregator platform. Longhorn has a long way to go before it matters. And Microsoft has to do a lot more before developers should trust them enough to get in a locked trunk where Microsoft controls the air supply. In fact, I don't think there's anything they can do to earn that kind of trust. Keep the trunk open, let God the put the air in there, never trust a company to keep you alive. 4/4/01: "There is a difference between riding in the car and being stuffed in the trunk." Geek News has MP3s of my keynote and the Microsoft announcement. Phil Ringnalda reviews Microsoft's embrace of RSS. Business Week: Microsoft Crashes the RSS Party. It's official now, RSS is bigger than Jesus.
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