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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.
First, GData [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

I spent the last month on vacation. This was the longest stretch of time I have ever taken off. I had such grand plans for it. I even began keeping a todo list and wrote down every cool idea I had. The list grew and grew. I checked off perhaps [...]

Several people recommended that I should take an extended holiday while I have the chance.
But I’m not sure that I’m cut out for vacations. I get antsy without a place to be and I feel like I’m slacking (or I worry that other people will think I’m slacking).
So vacation or not, the time off [...]

Sorry to have been quiet for so long. I’ve been heads down getting the final version of the OpenSearch 1.1 specification finished and preparing a community-oriented OpenSearch website. With luck those will both go live within the week.
On a related note, today is my last day with A9/Amazon. It has been an [...]

RSS is great. No, I’ll go further than that. RSS, as a representation of an idea, is perhaps the single most influential cultural shift of the post-2001 technical and business community. RSS is the embodiment of the notion of sharing and syndication. Businesses will do well the heed the lessons being [...]

My bet is that someone is going to make a very smart hire in the very near future. Joe Gregorio is looking for a new gig.
For those that don’t know Joe, he is the co-author of the Atom Publishing Protocol, guru of all things REST (and SOAP), über-experienced programmer, fantastic writer, and just [...]