Monday, February 23, 2004Mother-Daughter
Lisa and Lucy had fun too!
Everybody is talking about ESF. This is the sort of extension to RSS 2.0 we've been waiting for. And YES it can be gatewayed, bridged, connected to, whatevered - to iCal and the world of rdf. What about Atom?
Why can't ALL the subscription formats support this?
Now let's hope that UpComing.org supports it and that true calendar/event aggregating starts!
Here we go!
Event Share Framework: very, very interesting. Here's my do list:
- Build support for ESF in K-collector (excellent for our when classification)
- We need clients to add ESF data to blogs feeds (Radio, Manila, MT, our own... is anyone already working on some client?)
- Convert iCal's ics files to RSS+ESF feed
- Can we exctract RSS+ESF from Outlook?
[Paolo Valdemarin: Paolo's Weblog]
Some Progress on Sharing Calendars?.
Will the Event Share Framework be the prime mover that helps finally break the logjam that has prevented all the various scheduling and PIM apps from being able to share events with each other? ESF is supported by NewsGator, which plugs into Microsoft Outlook, and Outlook interop has always been the stumbling block for these types of efforts (thanks for nothing, Microsoft)... so, this looks like one to keep an eye on. [Ant's Eye View]
Paolo likes Event Share Framework. [Scripting News]
RSS 2.0 Calendaring. A very nice Calendar extension for NewsGator, which can hook into Outlook. The only thing is the data is being... [Raw]
Scobleizer has a new photoblog.
I've started a photoblog over at TextAmerica. There you'll see images I shot tonight with Maryam during sunset. Also images from O'Reilly's Emerging Technology conference and the Demo 2004 conference.
TextAmerica really rocks. They recently rewrote their system in .NET and it's rocking fast now. How fast? Before I even had a chance to post this to my blog I got two comments on images I uploaded.
This is a lot of fun!
[Scobleizer: Microsoft Geek Blogger]
It was great to see Steve Levy at Etech. He's one of theoriginals.
I just ran across this nice set of Longhorn UI related articles, officially titled Aero User Experience Guidelines: Sampler for PDC 2003. Links to the meat are under What's Inside? heading. Some good ideas, some questionable, but all good looking. I am starting to get a little sick of all the gradients though and the huge titlebar seem wasteful. I wonder what usability tests caused them to make the title bar much bigger?
I won't put too many of these UI guideline shots in here - as Longhorn will be a reoccurring theme over the next three years - and there's no reason to go crazy - yet. But folks I'm telling the world underneath us is shifting.
I can see why Scoble went to work for Microsoft. Longhorn changes everything.
This here is a history of notifications dialog. Below - imagine a file system that expects meta-data.
I get to meet some of the 'People & Groups' folks when I go up to Microsoft next month. Just gotta make sure they support FOAF!
Trust Online - a subtle phenomenon which can't be categorised in a boolean way
Trust online is an interesting phenomenon. How do you make judgements about people who, much of the time, you have never met? Come to that, how do you make trust judgements about people that you have met? All the best conmen are, surely, the most plausible?
I have just installed a small piece of software, which adds a Microsoft-targetted search option to the Google search bar in Firefox 0.8. It's written by somebody called Jason Alexander who I had never heard of and is installed from one of the least informative Web pages, Mozilla FireFox Google Microsoft Search Plugin. [I guess I just have to hope he isn't as famous, to the blogging community anyway, as Walt Mossberg, Who is Walt Mossberg?.]
Why did I take the chance that this utility might be some form of spyware, adware or whatever? Because it was recommended by Scoble, Mozilla plugin for looking up Microsoft resources. On reflection, did Scoble really "recommend" it? Well, his words don't actually do that. But if he mentions a utility isn't he implicitly recommending it if he doesn't say caveat emptor?
The non-binary issue of trust has also come up recently in relation to "friendship rings" (call them what you will) like Orkut. I was interested in Chris Anderson's post, Marc in Orkut where he dissociated himself from Marc Canter, Marc's Voice. As far as I can gather Chris didn't have anything against Marc. But "friend-spam" is something that we can very probably do without. Or should that be "aspiring-to-friend spam"?
There are are raft of other friendship or community or social something sites springing up. Orkut, orkut, is one. Linked In, Welcome to LinkedIn, amusingly uses https for its home page. What does that say about trust? AlwaysOn, AlwaysOn Home, is another.
Are these new sites providing a "service" or taking control of some aspects of "my" life. Do I trust them to do that?
Surely my relationships, online or offline, with different individuals span a spectrum, including such terms as "vaguely know of", "know of", "know their technical competence", "trust their technical judgement", "trust them with my source code" and "trust them with my life"? One of the odd things, of course, is that in extreme situations you are likely to actually trust your life to somebody you don't know at all, such as a member of an emergency service.
Trust is not straightforward either online or, dare I say it, in the "real world". tfosorciM.org
More evidence why having JUST friend or not - is just not sufficient!
That's why our PeopleAggregator supports 7 levels of relationship!
Robert's right - screenshots ARE one of the currencies of videogame sites.
But so are:
- cheats and FAQs
- reviews, previews and any kind of view
- message boards
- game collections and game tracking
- and all sorts of other kinds of things (don't ask me why I know this sutle issue!)
What is currency if you are a game fan site? Screenshots! And XBox Realm has a bunch. Looks like a bunch of interesting games are coming this year.
[Scobleizer: Microsoft Geek Blogger]
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