Posts tagged as: sse

A closer look at SSE

Dion Hinchcliffe has some thoughtful things to say about Microsoft's SSE.

SSE Comments

I haven't worked with the issue of synchronization between clients or between multiple servers, so I can't evaluate the merits of Microsoft's new Simple Sharing Extensions to RSS. Alex Barnett has a good roundup of SSE posts. There is a lot of cynicism so far, but it will be hard for the Open Source advocates to ever accept anything from Microsoft. I just like the idea of the folks at Google having to lose sleep catching up on anyone else's announcements.There is a huge amount of FUD flying in all directions, but the mud is all landing in the right general directions. Eventually this will all turn into products.

Dave Winer has the best week ever

Ever since I became aware of the Web 2.0 meme I've been telling people that Dave Winer was one of the pivotal forces behind this new wave, maybe the central force. Everyone would have to admit that with GoogleBase turning out to be the world's biggest RSS database, and Ray Ozzie announcing Microsoft's synchronization and replication protocol based on RSS, Dave Winer is having the best week ever! Ozzie's announcement letter can only be described as effusive in his praise of Winer's role:

Microsoft and Google are being maneuvered into a massive game of chicken. I'll show everyone my Office data if you'll show your search data, and Dave is instigating it. My question is what comes next Dave? What are you working on for the wave after this, because I think this one is going to be pretty condensed.

Lest anyone reading this get the wrong idea, I should also make it clear that Dave and I haven't spoken in a couple of years and I'm hardly a sycophant, but that doesn't diminish my estimate of his influence on where the computer industry is headed. For right or wrong, we're riding the RSS train now.