Outlook 2007 and RSS support
As I mentioned last night, I downloaded the Office 2007 beta 2 and have been using it today to see how it works. Outlook’s support for feeds is pretty interesting, so I thought I’d give a run-down on my initial reactions. More after the jump.
Office 2007 Beta 2 available for download
Seen over at “Uneasy Silence”:http://www.uneasysilence.com/archive/2006/05/6441/, the Office 2007 Beta is now available for download. I’m downloading it overnight, should be ready to play with tomorrow… I’m eager to see what they’ve done with RSS outside of IE7. Download link is “here”:http://www.microsoft.com/office/preview/beta/overview.mspx.
The Big Picture
Mike Davidson, CEO of Newsvine, suggested that he wants to keep his RSS feeds pure — no ads, no content other than headlines — so that the feed is just an update mechanism to drive content back to his site. That’s the third time today someone’s suggested that the publisher can decide the consumption dynamics [...]
Checking in from Syndicate - Jarvis unkeynote
Jeff Jarvis is giving an un-keynote where he’s leading a group-wide discussion to kick off Syndicate. The audience “voted” by indicating that they want to talk about “Money and syndication” first (shocker! people want to make money on their content!). Some questions:
First questioner asked about the repurposing of his feeds, and suggested that he derives [...]
Direct Marketing conference
I just finished participating in a panel discussion with Marty Donner (GM at “ReturnPath”:http://www.returnpath.net/) and Neil Rosen (CEO at “eWayDirect”:http://www.ewaydirect.com/) at the “DirectMedia”:http://www.directmedia.com/ “client co-op”:http://www.directmedia.com/pdfs/Final_Agenda06.pdf. We had a pretty full room — and not a single person there subscribed to a podcast. Only a half dozen knew what feeds were.
It was obvious there was a [...]
Five podcasts I can’t live without
Ever since I re-acquired an iPod (a much-appreciated Christmas gift), I’ve been able to get back in the habit of listening to (and, increasingly, watching) podcasts. For those of you who are looking for some quality podcasts to add to your playlist, here are the ones I can’t live without:
* “Croncast”:http://www.croncast.com/. (”feed”:http://feeds.feedburner.com/croncast) Sure, I’m friends [...]
Congress Voting Records in RSS
Almost exactly 3 years ago, “Jen Klyse”:http://www.klyjen.net/ came up with a cool idea: “create RSS feeds for members of Congress”:http://www.klyjen.net/blog/2002/12/05.html#a116. She didn’t end up developing the concept, but it looks like the Washington Post “just did”:http://projects.washingtonpost.com/congress/. Here’s “Barack Obama’s voting feed”:http://projects.washingtonpost.com/congress/rss/members/o000167/. Very cool.
Hat tip to “37 Signals”:http://37signals.com/svn/archives2/congressional_voting_records_made_useful_with_rss_too.php for catching this (and Eric Olson for pointing [...]
Houston Chronicle - Hurricane Rita feed
Houston Chronicle has a “Hurricane Rita feed”:http://feeds.chron.com/houstonchronicle/rita for “the storm”:http://www.cnn.com/2005/WEATHER/09/20/rita/index.html that’s heading towards Texas.
Changes to my RSS feed
Just hacked my Movable Type template for my RSS feed, and changed things over at FeedBurner to boot. What I did:
* turned off AdSense for Feeds. I originally tried it out to make sure I understood what the process was for our users (we make implementing AdSense for Feeds pretty easy), but that’s done and [...]
Congrats to Matt McAlister
I’ve been fortunate to get to know Matt in the past few months, and have enjoyed swapping thoughts and ideas about RSS with him. This is exciting news for him; he’ll be a real asset to the Yahoo! team (Matt: didn’t the offer letter say something about using the exclamation point?) and it’ll be fun [...]
