Published by Robert Scoble
I give you a front-row seat on the future. Focusing most of my efforts now on next-generation augmented reality and artificial intelligence, AKA "mixed reality."
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BIO:
Scoble gives you a front-row seat on the future.
Literally. He had the first ride in the first Tesla. Siri was launched in his house. He's been the first to share all sorts of technologies and companies with you, from Flipboard to Pandora to Instagram.
Today he's focusing on mixed reality, AKA "next-generation augmented reality" which will include a new user interface for EVERYTHING in your life (IoT, Smart Cities, driverless cars, robots, drones, etc).
That's based on his view thanks to his past experience as futurist at Rackspace.
Best place to find Scoble? On his Facebook profile at https://www.facebook.com/RobertScoble
He has been a technology blogger since 2000, was one of five people who built Microsoft's Channel 9 video blog/community, worked at Fast Company Magazine running its TV efforts, and has been part of technology media businesses since 1993.
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SPEAKER PITCH:
Apple and Facebook now have revealed their Augmented Reality strategies, which means your business needs one too. Rely on Robert Scoble, the world's top authority on AR, to bring to your conference what businesses should do next.
SPEECH ABSTRACT #1:
TITLE: The Fourth Transformation: What's next in mixed reality (AR and AI) and the future of technology?
Here's an example of this talk at Leade.rs in Paris in April, 2017: https://youtu.be/52_0JshgjXI
Why "the Fourth Transformation?"
Soon we will have phones and glasses that do full on augmented reality. Everything you look at will potentially be augmented. This world is coming in late 2017 with a new iPhone from Apple, amongst other products. Microsoft is betting everything on its HoloLens glasses that do mixed reality and the industry is spending many billions of dollars in R&D and funding new companies like Magic Leap.
This future will be the user interface for IoT, Smart Cities, autonomous cars, robots, drones, and your TV.
This is a big deal and Robert will take you through what mixed reality is and how it will change every business.
Learn more about Robert's speaking style and contact his agent at http://odemanagement.com/robert-scoble/Robert-Scoble.html
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SPEECH ABSTRACT #2:
"The Next Two Clicks of Moore's Law."
Over the next four years, or two clicks of Moore's Law, a ton about our technology world will change. Scoble will bring you the best from his travels visiting R&D labs, startups, and innovators around the world.
He views the world through his rose-colored-mixed-reality glasses, which will be the new user interface for self driving cars, Smart Cities, IoT, and many other things in our world.
He'll send you off with some lessons for companies both large and small.
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SPEECH ABSTRACT #3:
"Personalized Meaning: What is Augmented Reality For?"
As we enter a far more technological world where even cars drive themselves, I predict we'll see a blowback toward the analog, more authentic world.
What role does augmented reality play in both worlds?
Get Scoble's insight into where augmented reality is going, see tons of real-world demos, and understand what he means by 'personalized meaning.'
CONTACT:
If you are looking to contact me, email is best: scobleizer@gmail.com.
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ENDORSEMENTS:
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Time: One of the top 140 Twitterers!
FT: One of the five most influential Twitterers!
Inc. Top 5 on list of Tech Power Players You Need to Know: http://www.inc.com/john-rampton/30-power-players-in-tech-you-need-to-know.html
Next Reality: #4 on top 50 AR influencer list: https://next.reality.news/news/nr50-next-realitys-50-people-watch-augmented-mixed-reality-0177454/
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It does not need to be that. Today we do have thousands of products which can read and produce Atom. My blog software has an output of both – I surpress it for RSS with enclosures. If people would tell me how I could use Atom for it, I would probably change it in the future, if there are other benefits as well.
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It does not need to be that. Today we do have thousands of products which can read and produce Atom. My blog software has an output of both – I surpress it for RSS with enclosures. If people would tell me how I could use Atom for it, I would probably change it in the future, if there are other benefits as well.
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Nicole: but if they could DEMONSTRATE the advantages more people would understand the advantages. Me? I’ve been using RSS for years and it does what I need. It’s “good enough.” I don’t need the other features that DeWitt is talking about. Why? Cause I haven’t had someone create that need in me through an aggregator shows off a big feature difference.
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Nicole: but if they could DEMONSTRATE the advantages more people would understand the advantages. Me? I’ve been using RSS for years and it does what I need. It’s “good enough.” I don’t need the other features that DeWitt is talking about. Why? Cause I haven’t had someone create that need in me through an aggregator shows off a big feature difference.
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..just in case you missed it – thought youd like 9 patrol 🙂
http://channel9.msdn.com/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=211064
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..just in case you missed it – thought youd like 9 patrol 🙂
http://channel9.msdn.com/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=211064
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Jamie, that reminds me. I LOVE THAT! But, you do have too much time on your hands. 🙂
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Jamie, that reminds me. I LOVE THAT! But, you do have too much time on your hands. 🙂
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Atom is a good thing because RSS is an umbrella term for about 3 different formats, none of which are particularly well-defined.
At the end of the day, what using Atom over RSS does is make engineers’ lives easier. If an engineer’s life is easier, he can spend his time doing innovative cool stuff rather than tedious plumbing code to accomodate the RSS format mess.
You have to build a solid foundation before you can build a house or skyscraper, rather than a garden shed. Atom’s a good foundation, and RSS isn’t.
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Atom is a good thing because RSS is an umbrella term for about 3 different formats, none of which are particularly well-defined.
At the end of the day, what using Atom over RSS does is make engineers’ lives easier. If an engineer’s life is easier, he can spend his time doing innovative cool stuff rather than tedious plumbing code to accomodate the RSS format mess.
You have to build a solid foundation before you can build a house or skyscraper, rather than a garden shed. Atom’s a good foundation, and RSS isn’t.
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Andy: again, you aren’t listening. The world doesn’t care if engineers’ lives are easier. We are all self interested. Do a demo! Does no one pay attention to what Steve Jobs does to get people crazy about Apple products?
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Andy: again, you aren’t listening. The world doesn’t care if engineers’ lives are easier. We are all self interested. Do a demo! Does no one pay attention to what Steve Jobs does to get people crazy about Apple products?
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He’s not talking to you, though. That was a post from one engineer to another. Of course the world doesn’t care! People with blogs and people using aggregators neither need to know nor care what format is being used under the covers. Atom isn’t a product you’re going to sell to your consumers, or your boss. For example, as long as you get your email it doesn’t matter if you got it by POP3, IMAP4, via GMail, or carrier pigeon! For you, using Atom should be as transparent as flipping a switch in WordPress.
What he’s saying is that application developers should be using Atom exclusively going forward, because it’s proper web standards that make cool things easier to do because then you can focus on innovation and not just making the thing work at all. Just look at what’s been done on the web with HTML, CSS, XML, and scripting. You can see the damage already that’s been done to the web by no-one quite implementing any of these standards correctly, the wasted effort of making sure a page works in IE and Firefox.
The same could happen to syndication if application developers keep building things which spit out RSS by default because there’s such a variance in what and what not could be considered to be valid RSS.
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He’s not talking to you, though. That was a post from one engineer to another. Of course the world doesn’t care! People with blogs and people using aggregators neither need to know nor care what format is being used under the covers. Atom isn’t a product you’re going to sell to your consumers, or your boss. For example, as long as you get your email it doesn’t matter if you got it by POP3, IMAP4, via GMail, or carrier pigeon! For you, using Atom should be as transparent as flipping a switch in WordPress.
What he’s saying is that application developers should be using Atom exclusively going forward, because it’s proper web standards that make cool things easier to do because then you can focus on innovation and not just making the thing work at all. Just look at what’s been done on the web with HTML, CSS, XML, and scripting. You can see the damage already that’s been done to the web by no-one quite implementing any of these standards correctly, the wasted effort of making sure a page works in IE and Firefox.
The same could happen to syndication if application developers keep building things which spit out RSS by default because there’s such a variance in what and what not could be considered to be valid RSS.
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Robert, you’re absolutely right.
And rather than try and squeeze an entire reply into this little box, I posted it back on my site.
Thanks for jumping into the discussion!
Cheers,
-DeWitt
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Robert, you’re absolutely right.
And rather than try and squeeze an entire reply into this little box, I posted it back on my site.
Thanks for jumping into the discussion!
Cheers,
-DeWitt
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Andy: there’s a thing about engineers, though. They do stuff after a ton of users tell them to.
That’s how we got RSS into Microsoft. They ignored it at first, despite the “engineer’s pleas” to get the teams to add it.
People pay attention when there’s adoption behavior. That comes from apps. From users.
If Dave Winer never built an aggregator and a blog tool he never would have gotten users. If he never got users, he never would have gotten the New York Times to pay attention. If he never got the New York Times to pay attention he never would have gotten the Sharepoint team to adopt RSS.
If you want the world to adopt Atom (or, really ANYTHING) you need to make that first step.
Give me something to use that clearly demonstrates a REAL advantage over what we have now.
DeWitt, nice blog, I’ll be listening to you a lot from now on.
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Andy: there’s a thing about engineers, though. They do stuff after a ton of users tell them to.
That’s how we got RSS into Microsoft. They ignored it at first, despite the “engineer’s pleas” to get the teams to add it.
People pay attention when there’s adoption behavior. That comes from apps. From users.
If Dave Winer never built an aggregator and a blog tool he never would have gotten users. If he never got users, he never would have gotten the New York Times to pay attention. If he never got the New York Times to pay attention he never would have gotten the Sharepoint team to adopt RSS.
If you want the world to adopt Atom (or, really ANYTHING) you need to make that first step.
Give me something to use that clearly demonstrates a REAL advantage over what we have now.
DeWitt, nice blog, I’ll be listening to you a lot from now on.
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The world doesn’t need to care if it makes the engineers’ life easier. Any product where the user knows or cares if the feed formats are Atom or RSS is broken. This should be backend stuff. Shouting about this is akin to debating the merits of one database over the other. I haven’t seen you hammer relentlessly on the merits of Mysql over Postgresql so I don’t see how you (or anybody who isn’t actually working on a product as an engineer/programmer) should even get involved in this discussion when they could be doing something fun. Like making podcasts and videos and showing other people how to do the same, for example 🙂
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The world doesn’t need to care if it makes the engineers’ life easier. Any product where the user knows or cares if the feed formats are Atom or RSS is broken. This should be backend stuff. Shouting about this is akin to debating the merits of one database over the other. I haven’t seen you hammer relentlessly on the merits of Mysql over Postgresql so I don’t see how you (or anybody who isn’t actually working on a product as an engineer/programmer) should even get involved in this discussion when they could be doing something fun. Like making podcasts and videos and showing other people how to do the same, for example 🙂
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I expect you’ll see the publishing side of it once the Atom Publishing Protocol spec goes final.
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I expect you’ll see the publishing side of it once the Atom Publishing Protocol spec goes final.
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I posted a follow-up comment in DeWitt’s blog but just to re-iterate, while the new “metadata module” feature in Awasu will work with both RSS and Atom feeds, it works much better with Atom.
Microformats are the key and while I think it will take a while for people to catch on, they will become extremely popular and important. The way the guys at microformats.org have designed their formats is very clever since it lets information be embedded into feed items in such a way that it can be read by both humans and computers.
You want a feature that demonstrates Atom’s superiority? Atom is the only format that lets microformats be used this way. That was the whole point of DeWitt’s article. Awasu can display that information to the user in the item descriptions *and* extract it from the XML for things like search, to pass on to other applications, etc. It’s not just an opaque blob of text. And as microformats become popular, people will realize that they can’t do this with RSS. If you try, you will find that you can only do one or the other. Either it’s in an opaque block, so that the user can read it or it’s XML, so that the computer can read it.
If you look at the screenshots of Awasu extracting non-RSS metadata from feeds (http://www.awasu.com/downloads/2.2.3/alpha2/demo/), it’s easy to see how RSS/Atom can become simply a means for transporting information around, not just HTML in item descriptions but anything at all, embedded as an XML payload. And Awasu can be instructed (via config files) to extract and use *any* XML information from a feed. That’s a killer feature.
Publishing tools won’t be what sells Atom, it’ll be the client tools. The whole point of syndication is to move information around and the key is what you can *do* with that information, not how it got published. Right now, there are so many different feed readers out there that let you download massive amounts of data and the only thing they can do with it is let a human read it 🙄 With Awasu, we’re trying to let people actually do something a bit more useful with it.
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I posted a follow-up comment in DeWitt’s blog but just to re-iterate, while the new “metadata module” feature in Awasu will work with both RSS and Atom feeds, it works much better with Atom.
Microformats are the key and while I think it will take a while for people to catch on, they will become extremely popular and important. The way the guys at microformats.org have designed their formats is very clever since it lets information be embedded into feed items in such a way that it can be read by both humans and computers.
You want a feature that demonstrates Atom’s superiority? Atom is the only format that lets microformats be used this way. That was the whole point of DeWitt’s article. Awasu can display that information to the user in the item descriptions *and* extract it from the XML for things like search, to pass on to other applications, etc. It’s not just an opaque blob of text. And as microformats become popular, people will realize that they can’t do this with RSS. If you try, you will find that you can only do one or the other. Either it’s in an opaque block, so that the user can read it or it’s XML, so that the computer can read it.
If you look at the screenshots of Awasu extracting non-RSS metadata from feeds (http://www.awasu.com/downloads/2.2.3/alpha2/demo/), it’s easy to see how RSS/Atom can become simply a means for transporting information around, not just HTML in item descriptions but anything at all, embedded as an XML payload. And Awasu can be instructed (via config files) to extract and use *any* XML information from a feed. That’s a killer feature.
Publishing tools won’t be what sells Atom, it’ll be the client tools. The whole point of syndication is to move information around and the key is what you can *do* with that information, not how it got published. Right now, there are so many different feed readers out there that let you download massive amounts of data and the only thing they can do with it is let a human read it 🙄 With Awasu, we’re trying to let people actually do something a bit more useful with it.
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Well, it must be something only Atom does and RSS not. My point for stating the thing about building to demonstrate is that back then this was not only about showing RSS – it had the implication of being more than that. Back then, Userland was more than just about feeds.
Today, Atom and RSS for normal users are alike. You notice that blogger is only doing atom and you use feedburner to make a podcast feed out of it.
Engineers probably avoid making nice plugins for systems like wordpress, avoid talking to podcatch programmers etc because what they would tell them would imply work – and they probably like it better to work on new specs 😉
A “show me” application in this sense is therefor more complicated. And seriously: Technorati loves you more with Atom is something to get me switched. 😉
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Well, it must be something only Atom does and RSS not. My point for stating the thing about building to demonstrate is that back then this was not only about showing RSS – it had the implication of being more than that. Back then, Userland was more than just about feeds.
Today, Atom and RSS for normal users are alike. You notice that blogger is only doing atom and you use feedburner to make a podcast feed out of it.
Engineers probably avoid making nice plugins for systems like wordpress, avoid talking to podcatch programmers etc because what they would tell them would imply work – and they probably like it better to work on new specs 😉
A “show me” application in this sense is therefor more complicated. And seriously: Technorati loves you more with Atom is something to get me switched. 😉
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Whether we like it or not, RSS has become the lingua fraca of content synidcation. Even if it is inferior to Atom (I don’t know if it is), having multiple standards would hurt the idea of content syndication. The best thing is for everyone to follow one standard (RSS would be the logical choice because it is the most ubiquitous) and improve it as things evlove. If there are multiple camps, then everyone loses. Please learn from the past history. Don’t repeat the same mistakes.
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Whether we like it or not, RSS has become the lingua fraca of content synidcation. Even if it is inferior to Atom (I don’t know if it is), having multiple standards would hurt the idea of content syndication. The best thing is for everyone to follow one standard (RSS would be the logical choice because it is the most ubiquitous) and improve it as things evlove. If there are multiple camps, then everyone loses. Please learn from the past history. Don’t repeat the same mistakes.
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Users don’t care about formats. Developers care very much about formats and they overwhelmingly prefer Atom. RSS 2.0 may survive for a while in the blogosphere where the developer is a second class citizen but Atom will dominate in the enterprise.
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Users don’t care about formats. Developers care very much about formats and they overwhelmingly prefer Atom. RSS 2.0 may survive for a while in the blogosphere where the developer is a second class citizen but Atom will dominate in the enterprise.
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I expect that the publishing tool will be awhile yet.
But I would argue that aggregators should understand all content syndication formats, or at least, as many as possible, and as such, are a poor way of demonstrating the superiority of the format.
Atom’s advantages are a lot more obvious from the publishing end. And even then, since so few people roll their own publishing software, it’s more that they’re obvious to the guy who writes the publishing software. Needless to say, that doesn’t make for massive crowds of people demanding Atom. That said, I’ve been seeing a growing push lately among developers to switch to using only Atom instead of providing numerous different feed formats, so who knows?
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I expect that the publishing tool will be awhile yet.
But I would argue that aggregators should understand all content syndication formats, or at least, as many as possible, and as such, are a poor way of demonstrating the superiority of the format.
Atom’s advantages are a lot more obvious from the publishing end. And even then, since so few people roll their own publishing software, it’s more that they’re obvious to the guy who writes the publishing software. Needless to say, that doesn’t make for massive crowds of people demanding Atom. That said, I’ve been seeing a growing push lately among developers to switch to using only Atom instead of providing numerous different feed formats, so who knows?
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Raja, Dave Winer has frozen the RSS 2.0 spec. It can’t be improved upon and still be called RSS. There’s no evolution allowed. So that’s not really an option.
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Raja, Dave Winer has frozen the RSS 2.0 spec. It can’t be improved upon and still be called RSS. There’s no evolution allowed. So that’s not really an option.
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well… it took me 8 hours+ to figure out a reply to “too much time on your hands”. and all i can say is Beach Boys:
ra ra ra ra sis boom bah ra ra ra ra sis boom bah…
be true to your school…
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well… it took me 8 hours+ to figure out a reply to “too much time on your hands”. and all i can say is Beach Boys:
ra ra ra ra sis boom bah ra ra ra ra sis boom bah…
be true to your school…
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ha – 8 hours….if you look at canadian time on the start bar.. while reading this…fine…blog 😉
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ha – 8 hours….if you look at canadian time on the start bar.. while reading this…fine…blog 😉
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Robert: “what it takes to get the world to flip over to its format”? – isn’t this piece from Amazon’s lead engineer evidence that people are flipping over?
Alreading interesting apps are appearing in the geek world (e.g. CodeZoo), but I do suspect it will be a while before a really compelling app makes it to the typical user. Atom (the format) isn’t really anything revolutionary, it just removes many of the artificial barriers to innovation frozen in RSS 2.0.
Where there is revolutionary potential is in the Atom Publishing Protocol. Having a web-friendly interface for sending stuff to the server, one that is absolutely consistent with reading stuff from the server. Problems with current XML-RPC based APIs are well documented. Basically simple things are (just barely) possible, complex things – not a chance.
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Robert: “what it takes to get the world to flip over to its format”? – isn’t this piece from Amazon’s lead engineer evidence that people are flipping over?
Alreading interesting apps are appearing in the geek world (e.g. CodeZoo), but I do suspect it will be a while before a really compelling app makes it to the typical user. Atom (the format) isn’t really anything revolutionary, it just removes many of the artificial barriers to innovation frozen in RSS 2.0.
Where there is revolutionary potential is in the Atom Publishing Protocol. Having a web-friendly interface for sending stuff to the server, one that is absolutely consistent with reading stuff from the server. Problems with current XML-RPC based APIs are well documented. Basically simple things are (just barely) possible, complex things – not a chance.
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As an engineer, I can this: if the world was run by engineers, we would be in an entirely new kind of hell. Thank goodness for the crazy politicians.
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As an engineer, I can this: if the world was run by engineers, we would be in an entirely new kind of hell. Thank goodness for the crazy politicians.
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Atom versus RSS ? This will be sorted out by whichever is more prone to worms.
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Atom versus RSS ? This will be sorted out by whichever is more prone to worms.
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“Where’s the Atom publishing tool and aggregator that demonstrates Atom’s superiority?”
The same is absolutely true for microformats, which is why this is the case (see that little orange blob on the ‘y’ axis – that’s microformats).
When CoComment came out, all the alpha geeks I know were completely dismissive about it. They were waiting for a microformat to come out for blog comments. Of course, we’re still waiting, and there are now three or four different microformats for blog comments and still no actual shipped code to help, you know, a user actually accomplish a task. With very few exceptions, it’s all vapourware for geeks to honk their horn to rather than software for users to actually use.
A prediction: the microformats and Atom folks will continue to try and boil the ocean while the RSS and OPML guys will continue building tools. Back in May I went to OPML Camp in Cambridge, MA, where numerous people demoed a whole variety of different OPML tools. I’m salivating at the thought of XOXO Camp, but I don’t think I’m going to be having to find the airfare for it any time soon. (Disclosure: I help build OPML tools, so, hey what do I know?)
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“Where’s the Atom publishing tool and aggregator that demonstrates Atom’s superiority?”
The same is absolutely true for microformats, which is why this is the case (see that little orange blob on the ‘y’ axis – that’s microformats).
When CoComment came out, all the alpha geeks I know were completely dismissive about it. They were waiting for a microformat to come out for blog comments. Of course, we’re still waiting, and there are now three or four different microformats for blog comments and still no actual shipped code to help, you know, a user actually accomplish a task. With very few exceptions, it’s all vapourware for geeks to honk their horn to rather than software for users to actually use.
A prediction: the microformats and Atom folks will continue to try and boil the ocean while the RSS and OPML guys will continue building tools. Back in May I went to OPML Camp in Cambridge, MA, where numerous people demoed a whole variety of different OPML tools. I’m salivating at the thought of XOXO Camp, but I don’t think I’m going to be having to find the airfare for it any time soon. (Disclosure: I help build OPML tools, so, hey what do I know?)
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“Users don’t care about formats”
It matters when users lose data because of the format.
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“Users don’t care about formats”
It matters when users lose data because of the format.
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Another myopic outlook on your part. Of course users don’t care. That’s not the point of his post. Users didn’t care about x.400 or SMTP, but one was popular intially (x.400) and everyone that built email systems thought that was all we needed. Users didn’t care how the LAN worked but at one time there was a battle between Ethernet and Token Ring. The list goes on, I’m sure.
All new “standards” have their initial limitations and someone inevitibly comes along to improve on it or comes up with a better one to the end solution more efficient and effective and usable.
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Another myopic outlook on your part. Of course users don’t care. That’s not the point of his post. Users didn’t care about x.400 or SMTP, but one was popular intially (x.400) and everyone that built email systems thought that was all we needed. Users didn’t care how the LAN worked but at one time there was a battle between Ethernet and Token Ring. The list goes on, I’m sure.
All new “standards” have their initial limitations and someone inevitibly comes along to improve on it or comes up with a better one to the end solution more efficient and effective and usable.
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Just a few points.
There’s nothing that RSS does that Atom can’t do. There’s nothing that Atom does that RSS can’t do. They are interchangeable. But Atom has better clarity and as such better inter-op. But feed readers tend to support RSS better than they support Atom. So, you can do two things.
1- Clarify RSS
2- Make feed readers support Atom
I can’t help with #2, but #1 is being done by the RSS Advisory Board. If you need clarity, then the board can provide it.
http://www.rssboard.org/
You can ask questions on the mailing list.
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/rss-public
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Just a few points.
There’s nothing that RSS does that Atom can’t do. There’s nothing that Atom does that RSS can’t do. They are interchangeable. But Atom has better clarity and as such better inter-op. But feed readers tend to support RSS better than they support Atom. So, you can do two things.
1- Clarify RSS
2- Make feed readers support Atom
I can’t help with #2, but #1 is being done by the RSS Advisory Board. If you need clarity, then the board can provide it.
http://www.rssboard.org/
You can ask questions on the mailing list.
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/rss-public
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Randy: that’s in the realm of theory. In the realm of practicality, podcasts *are* RSS 2.0 by necessity. Of course, we’re waiting for the standards-oriented, Atom/microformats/Semantic Web answer to podcasting, but like all that stuff, it’s been about as forthcoming as blood is from stones.
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Randy: that’s in the realm of theory. In the realm of practicality, podcasts *are* RSS 2.0 by necessity. Of course, we’re waiting for the standards-oriented, Atom/microformats/Semantic Web answer to podcasting, but like all that stuff, it’s been about as forthcoming as blood is from stones.
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Q: Where’s the Atom publishing tool and aggregator that demonstrates Atom’s superiority?
A: All of them. All aggregators work more reliably when working with Atom than RSS.
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Q: Where’s the Atom publishing tool and aggregator that demonstrates Atom’s superiority?
A: All of them. All aggregators work more reliably when working with Atom than RSS.
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iTunes 6.0 supports Atom enclosures. Podcasts do not have to use RSS 2.0. If a podcast client doesn’t support Atom enclosures, it’s broken.
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iTunes 6.0 supports Atom enclosures. Podcasts do not have to use RSS 2.0. If a podcast client doesn’t support Atom enclosures, it’s broken.
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Is very interesting http://www.wide.msu.edu/Members/derik/poker-supply.html
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