I finally got around to updating my subscription list, over on the right side of the screen if you’re viewing the HTML version of this site. This one is generated from my NewsGator subscription file.In my case, it’s pretty simple – the page is rendered from a list in my SQL database, so I just [...]
Archive for: March, 2003
Comments feed
I’ve added the RSS 2.0 <author> element to my comments feed, which will make it easier to tell at a glance who posted the comment. Maybe Sam will follow suit – his comments feeds are pretty active…NewsGator users, just make sure the “From” column is part of the view for that feed, and you’ll be [...]
A couple of weblogs you’re probably not reading yet
Sean Varley has an interesting post talking about embedded processors and trends in that market:Processors sales run 50 billion dollars a year, but 98 percent of them are invisible. The truth is that only 2 percent of all the processors sold actually go into your regular old PC…And a big welcome to Tom Walker, who [...]
NewsGator 1.1 Released!
NewsGator 1.1 has been released! This is a significant release; many of the most-requested features have been added, and a few bugs have been fixed. You can download 1.1 here. And it’s a free upgrade for licensed 1.0 users. :-)Change list (with a few pictures):“From” column now shows author if present, otherwise feed name: [...]
Don caves
Don Box writes:Due to popular demand, my RSS/2.0 feed will soon support <content:encoded>, which will allow users of off-line readers (e.g., NewsGator, NewsGator, and NewsGator) to read my feeds without being connected.Heh…NewsGator users aren’t a quiet bunch! :-)
Screen Scraping
I’ve had a lot of requests for NewsGator to be able to scrape non-RSS-enabled sites, and create a “virtual feed” from them. Syndirella supports this capability on the client side; MyRSS can also create a feed from any web site, according to their documentation.Here’s the question I have. Do you think scraping content from a site is [...]
Corporate Weblogs
If you’re using weblogs internally in your company, and you’re willing to talk about it, can you send me a note? Thanks!
Content Syndication with RSS
In case anyone missed this from the NewsGator updates feed:Through our arrangement with O’Reilly & Associates, we are pleased to bring you Chapter 2: Content Syndication Architecture, from the new book, Content Syndication with RSS, by Ben Hammersley.From the chapter introduction:In this chapter, we’ll look at how RSS feeds are structured: both the feed itself [...]
Outlook menus and NewsGator
I recently received an email about the NewsGator menu in Outlook, which right now is added to the main Outlook menu bar. The person pointed out that if all add-ins added their menu to the main Outlook menu, we’d have a mess on our hands…and he suggested perhaps moving the menu to the NewsGator toolbar. [...]
Uh oh
Well this is pissing me off…newsgator.com has had some major issues since sometime last night:Server Application Unavailable The web application you are attempting to access on this web server is currently unavailable. Please hit the “Refresh” button in your web browser to retry your request. Administrator Note: An error message detailing the cause of this [...]