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Apr
2
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As I mentioned in my etech notes - APP (Atom Publishing Protocol) needs something to overcome the Chicken and Egg problem; well Tim Bray just announced the something - Google are hosting an APP interoperability event on April 16th and 17th.
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Feb
9
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Yahoo Pipes' servers have recovered so I just had a quick play and created my first pipe. The feeling I came away with was that the whole environment is a bit constrained - I found myself constantly wanting to do things that the environment wouldn't allow - like creating a new element and populating it with data from an existing feed. I'd really like to see an XSLT operator that would allow you do muck about with the feed a bit more.
The editor is something else - I think Yahoo have really set the bar for browser based UIs - the whole concept of connecting sources and input fields to operators just seems natural though the iterators did seem a little odd at first glance.
I'm guessing that the current palette of operators is just a start and that new operators will be introduced allowing for some pretty interesting applications - for now I think what we'll see is a couple of hundred iterations on the same "get a feed and run it through Flickr" (ie. like mine). Of course - I'd be happy to see human ingenuity prove me wrong.
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Dec
8
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For most - access to the web is a far off prospect as it mainly includes a PC and a Web Browser. The way to get the web to more people (IMO) isn't through sub-$100 laptops and micro-browsers in PDA / Call Phones or set top boxes. I think we need to take the web to the people, not bring the people to the web. To do that - delivery of content has to be made way more consumer-oriented. Don't think Desktop or Webtop widgets - think Fridge Magnets, Art, picture frames, billboards, bathrooms. Imagine a Fridge Magnet that takes an Atom/RSS feed of the weather forecast, A bathroom mirror that displays my news feed and stock quotes, a picture frame that accesses my Flickr image stream. They don't have to be one way either - they need to interact to provide feedback. The technology is getting small enough and cheap enough and WiFi, Bluetooth, GSM are starting to cover the planet.
So, who's making the next gen. fridge magnet ?
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Nov
6
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Finally - b.s.c now has support for tags. It even does delicious style completion in the built-in editors! I've been waiting for tags for a loooong time. At the weekend I mucked about with the macros for displaying tags - when I get time - I'm going to see if I can produce some tag eye-candy. I also think I'm going to remove the categories - I think they're a bit redundant. That of course means the Dojo fisheye category chooser has to go 
One problem I now have is that I can't post from Performancing as it doesn't support Roller's tags. Wouldn't it be nice if there we're one universal publishing protocol for the web. Wouldn't it be nice if I could choose any tool for publishing to any repository - too much to ask ? Oh wait.
