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My friend Dare Obasanjo recently wrote about some of the differences that he perceived between the latest draft Atom Publishing Protocol specification and the GData protocol specifications. A few of his observations were correct, and a few were incorrect, so I thought it might help if I shared my understanding of GData’s relationship with APP. [...]

David Kane over at Eph Blog posed a question on how to create a feed that aggregates news sources on a particular topic. As he illustrates, a single news search engine alone limited insofar as it may not cover enough news sources. The comments to his post discuss a few possible ways to solve the [...]

The Live Search team just launched a major revision of their innovative Live Search Macros product. Zach Gutt (a super nice guy on Microsoft’s search team) writes all about the new features on the Live Search WebLog. Be sure to read his full post here. Search Macros are a clever technique that gives the user [...]

Joe Gregorio has posted the first public draft of a generalized URL templating specification. I’ve been tagging along with the work of Joe, Marc Hadley, Mark Nottingham, David Orchard, and James Snell for the past few months on this. The formal URI Template Internet Draft has been submitted to the IETF standards track for public [...]