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Ian Davis: British; married with kids; technical architect; CTO of Talis; co-author of RSS 1.0; creator of FOAF icons; Semantic Web hacker.
My URI:
http://iandavis.com/id/me
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Twitter:
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Monthly Archives: July 1999
StartsHere supports RSS 0.91
Now that RSSMaker has been upgraded, StartsHere has also been enhanced to take full advantage of the fat RSS 0.91 channels. You have the option now of viewing these as headline only or with full content. You can still customise … Continue reading
RSSMaker Now Supports RSS 0.91
RSSMaker has been converted to produce RSS 0.91 files in addition to it’s normal RSS 0.90 output. The files are named as before but now have an XML extension rather than RDF. At some point in the future the RSS … Continue reading
Network54 Using OCS
Network54, formerly known as NetBabbler, now supports RSS 0.91 as it’s syndication format. Even better than that, they are using OCS Directory format to list their hundreds of channels. Each sub category can display it’s own OCS file by adding … Continue reading
Internet Alchemy now Supports RSS 0.91
We now support the new RSS 0.91 format. You can find the file here.
RSS Version 0.91 Released
Netscape have updated RSS to version 0.91 and changed it’s name. It’s no longer RDF Site Summary but now Rich Site Summary. The format has some additonal elements such as item descriptions but one major change is the removal of … Continue reading
Palm to Support WAP
It looks as though Palm are about to build in support for WAP into the Palm VII which is good news for this fledgling protocol.
World Stats
Interesting collection of statistics about the countries of the world. See if you can guess the most densely populated country in the world. (Hint: Singapore is second with 5,370 people per square km)
Win2K Encrypted File System
This report details how insecure the Windows 2000 Encrypted File System has turned out to be. Essentially to gain access to an encrypted volume you install a parallel version of Windows 2000, delete the user database and log in as … Continue reading
AltaVista Backtracks
According to this report AltaVista has backtracked on it’s auctioning of search terms. It seems that they were swayed by the general public opinion that selling links made the service less trustworthy. Score one for the consumers.
Portals to Target Devices
Over at PC World the article to watch is the one about the way the major portals are moving away from the web as a medium to smaller devices such as the Palm or even small software devices that live … Continue reading
