Universal Subscription Mechanism
I've been blogging a lot about the recent movement to settle on a universal subscription mechanism. Everybody should know that I'm in favor of returning a proper media type. Let me explain a bit why I...
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OK but the solution has to support web-based aggregators and cannot require software on the host machine. I don't see any reasonable way to do that other than Dave's solution. And Dave's already proven...
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I affraid I don't quite understand. The: "The page cannot be displayed The page you are looking for might have been removed or had its name changed." error comes from the fact that tribe.net as usual...
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Zbinview, Go to the link of the original article, bottom of my original post and try the links from there. I simply copied the text to tribe and tribe of course, mucked it all up.
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The media-type solution also works for browser-based aggregators. They simply require one client component to redirect the hits back to the aggregator's Web site.
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I tried that just afer posting my note. I saw what you mean - it is some how hard to talk about it here when the link is so mangled by tribe.net.
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right but that's exactly one more client component than people want to install....why the resistance to a web-based service exactly?
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There is no Web based solution. Dave Winer is simply asking for people to come together and work on a centralized solution. What the solution is, has not even been thought thru. So, there's no...
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I threw together a demo that does work actually, last weekend as chance would have it. It's not quite the service that Winer describes, just a simple redirect to allow users to configure which URL they...
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FYI, Universal Subscription Mechanism is based entirely on Joe's Atom subscription model.
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I'm interested in revisiting this topic to see what the current status quo. It seems to me there's no one way to fix this for everyone. I expect they'll all come into use for different purposes. What's...
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This entire thread is obsolete. IE7 will have feed autodiscovery. Everything else is now pointless. feed: is dead USM will continue to exist, because it's natural, but won't play a big role.
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yeah and IE7 will be widely adopted around 2009 or so...
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Eventually many of the questions around RSS will become moot, the question is when, and what to do in the meantime. While its important to keep an eye on the horizon, I think it easy to give MS too...
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