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e martë shkurt 01, 2005
Podcast version of your feed I heard about Feedpod today and think it is a very clever idea: it is a Text-To-Speech RSS/ATOM Newsfeed reader. I don't care too much about the client side. James Gosling had added Text-To-Speech to his JNN client side aggregator many months ago but after experiencing it for a few hours it was only an annoying feature. What makes this project interesting is on the server side: "You can use FeedPod on your site to offer a PodCast of your blog". I haven't tried it yet but this is a killer feature!
In addition to enhancing the accessibility of your feed, it may be a great way to broaden your "readership"... or should I say audience?. When more people will pick up the habit of listening to podcasts while commuting, using an iPod, or soon their cell phone having an audio version of your feed available is a good idea.
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Mark Woodman created a cool Powered by ROME badge. After the T-shirt, the badge was sorely missing;-)
It took only 3 days before we had a first site using it: Robert "kebernet" Cooper in his excellent Feedpod java.net project.
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ROME-Feedparser collaboration
Dave Johnson submitted our joint proposal to JavaOne yesterday: I hope it will be accepted. With Kevin, Dave, Alejandro and I presenting all you can do with feeds in java, using ROME and Feedparser, I think it will be one of the hottest sessions this year!
It seems the collaboration between our projects may begin at the feed network API level. Kevin Burton and Nick Lothian started an interesting thread in java-syndication about this. It seems like our libraries may have many complementary features. I posted a few thoughts of my own about the whole RFC 3229 delta encoding vs new http headers discussion today. I think we should support all these methods, and give developers some control over what they want to use. This will require some good documentation.
I'm confident we'll achieve some form of convergence in this area before JavaOne.
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Link: Making CAPTCHAs Even Harder With 3-D Models
Making CAPTCHAs Even Harder With 3-D Models provides a new interesting approach to generating CAPTCHAs ("Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart"), leveraging human's ability to evaluate a 3D scene from a 2D representation. I hope Marc-Antoine Garrigue will implement that method soon in his wonderful JCaptcha library. Dave Johnson has integrated Marc-Antoine's JCaptcha based Roller comment authenticator plugin in Roller 1.0 RC2. It is not deployed on blogs.sun.com yet, but I have good hopes it will be.
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