Bill Gates: blogging and RSS “very interesting phenomenon”
Microsoft Watch published notes on a speech Bill Gates (my überboss) gave to the Microsoft CEO Summit. In the speech, which was webcast externally, he talked about technology empowering individual users, and highlighted weblogs and RSS:
Gates called blogging and the RSS Web content syndication service a “very interesting phenomenon.” He suggested that by using RSS [...]
Manila 9.0.1 now available; cosmos links supported
Manila 9.0.1 has been released. While ostensibly a bug fix release, it adds some cool new features that I’m looking forward to playing with.
One feature is particularly cool because I asked for it . The new encodedPermalinkURL macro for news item templates enables constructing Technorati Cosmos links like the ones on Boing Boing. Kudos to [...]
RSS to Outlook
LockerGnome: RSS to Outlook. Neat tool, potentially, for bringing RSS data about events, meetings, or what have you into your Outlook calendar where it belongs.
I remember someone doing the reverse case (bringing RSS feeds into iCal) when Apple’s iCal came out. What I wondered at the time was when someone would actually start exposing useful [...]
