Yesterday evening I attended the SDForum Web Services SIG meeting held at the Microsoft Campus in Silicon Valley. The meeting topic was "What is RSS?" and featured three speakers presenting to a group of about 70. These are my notes from the meeting with some rough editing. Update 2004-03-23: The original PDFs from the three presenters have been posted. E-mail... (more)
February 2004 Archives
Just discovered a great description of RSS: RSS Described in Plain English, explaining not only the technical bits behind RSS, but also the benefits of providing an RSS feed. This will be a useful pointer for RSS evangelism in the future. [Via Online Business Networks]... (more)
Supporting a "print friendly" capability is very useful for readers who like to print out longer articles and web pages. Using a cascading stylesheet tuned for print media is a simple but effective way to add this capability without creating special print-friendly templates. I wrote a short article describing some of the details, including examples for MovableType: Print Stylesheets... (more)
Today I had another occasion to use NT Password which is a bootable Linux-based tool for resetting Windows NT/2000/XP passwords. (more)
Previously I listed some of my concepts for an automatic feed validation service. Today Dave Winer introduced a "scheduled validation" service which is pretty similar. I signed up to give it a test drive, but I'd still like to write my own and make the source available for others.... (more)
Ben Fry (from MIT) coded up a really cool visualization of zipcode data in the United States. As you type each digit, you can see the location narrow. His website has lots of other interesting content and projects worth checking out. [Via Chris Sells]... (more)
While searching Wi-Fi-FreeSpot today, I found HotSpotVPN which is a VPN solution for "public space wireless security". This is a paid VPN service targeting public hotspot users: If you check your email in any public hotspot, anyone with a sniffer can record your username and password and have access to your email account from that moment on. Good sniffers are... (more)
Looks like iFilm has all of the Super Bowl commercials available again this year. You can view them with Real, Windows Media Player, or QuickTime, although the highest resolution for Real requires a subscription. Personally, I liked the Bud commercials (especially Sleigh Ride) the best. Budweiser.com has this year's ads on their web site as well. Bud Light took top... (more)
