January 2005 - Posts

• Technorati Tags: Why Do Bad Ideas Keep Resurfacing?

  So I just read an interesting post about Technorati Tags on Shelley Powers's blog entitled Cheap Eats at the Semantic Web Café . As I read Shelley's post I kept feeling a strong sense of deja vu which I couldn't shake. If you were using the Web in the Read More... Posted Monday, January 31, 2005 1:16 PM by DareObasanjo | 9 Comments

• News Stories Confuse Me: Microsoft Won't Bundle Desktop Search with Windows

  I noticed an eWeek article this morning titled Microsoft Won't Bundle Desktop Search with Windows which has had me scratching my head all morning. The article contains the following excerpts Microsoft Corp. has no immediate plans to integrate desktop Read More... Posted Monday, January 31, 2005 11:37 AM by DareObasanjo | 6 Comments

• One Click Subscription: The World is Full of Bad Ideas

  I had promised myself I wouldn't get involved in this debate but it seems every day I see more and more people giving credence to bad ideas and misconceptions. The debate I am talking about is one click subscriptions to RSS feeds which Dave Winer recently Read More... Posted Saturday, January 29, 2005 10:36 AM by DareObasanjo | 3 Comments

• Article Idea: Processing XML in the Real World

  Coincidentally just as I finished reading a post by Tim Bray about Private Syndication , I got two bug reports filed almost simultaneously about RSS Bandit's support for secure RSS feeds. The first was SSL challenge for non-root certs where the user complained Read More... Posted Thursday, January 27, 2005 7:10 PM by DareObasanjo | 3 Comments

• Folksonomies, Taxonomies and Metacrap

  I've been doing a bit of reading about folksonomies recently. The definition of folksonomy in Wikipedia currently reads Folksonomy is a neologism for a practice of collaborative categorization using simple tags in a flat namespace . This feature has begun Read More... Posted Sunday, January 23, 2005 7:23 PM by DareObasanjo | 3 Comments

• My C-Omega Article Published

  My article on Cω is finally published. It appeared on XML.com as Introducing Comega while it showed up as the next installment of my Extreme XML column on MSDN with the title An Overview of Cω: Integrating XML into Popular Programming Languages . It was Read More... Posted Thursday, January 20, 2005 8:50 PM by DareObasanjo | 1 Comments

• A Look at Some of the Negative Feedback on rel="nofollow"

  If you've been following the blogosphere you should know by now that the Google, Yahoo! and MSN search engines decided to start honoring the rel="nofollow" attribute on links to mean that the linked page shouldn't get any increased ranking from that link. Read More... Posted Wednesday, January 19, 2005 12:46 PM by DareObasanjo | 12 Comments

• MyMSN Supports RSS and Atom Aggregation

  It had to happen sooner or later. MyMSN now supports adding RSS or Atom 0.3 feeds as content sources for your home page. RSS/Atom content modules can be customized to show articles from up to 1 day old to up to 365 days old, display from up to 1 article Read More... Posted Tuesday, January 18, 2005 8:40 AM by DareObasanjo | 12 Comments

• Desktop Search: Solving the Wrong Problem as Quickly as Possible

  Derek has a post entitled Search is not Search where he alludes to conversations we had about my post Apples and Oranges: WinFS and Google Desktop Search . His blog post reminds me about why I'm so disappointed that the benefits of adding structured metadata Read More... Posted Sunday, January 16, 2005 11:16 PM by DareObasanjo | 9 Comments

• MSN Search Supports RSS

  Its begun to spread around the blogosphere that MSN has added support for RSS to a couple more of its web offerings. Yesterday on the MSN Search weblog, Brady announced that there are now RSS Feeds for Search Results on the MSN Search beta site. The URL Read More... Posted Wednesday, January 12, 2005 9:27 AM by DareObasanjo | 1 Comments

• Photo Sharing with MSN Premium and MSN Spaces

  I've been playing around with the photo album in my MSN Space and have begun to get interested in online photo sharing. I've never been big on taking pictures. The last time I took pictures were on my vacation in Hawaii with the ex last year but I didn't Read More... Posted Tuesday, January 11, 2005 11:03 AM by DareObasanjo | 6 Comments

• A New Generation of Features for Programming Languages

  Recently Ted Leung posted a blog entry entitled Linguistic futures where he summarized a number of recent discussions in the blogosphere about potential new features for the current crop of popular programming languages. He wrote 1. Metaprogramming facilities Read More... Posted Saturday, January 08, 2005 10:08 PM by DareObasanjo | 6 Comments

• Bill Gates on MSN and Social Software

  C|Net News has an interview with Bill Gates entitled Gates taking a seat in your den . One of his most interesting answers from my perspective was his take on Microsoft and blogging. The question and his answer are excerpted below One of the big phenomena Read More... Posted Wednesday, January 05, 2005 11:57 PM by DareObasanjo | 0 Comments

• More on Google and Open Source

  In response to Krzysztof Kowalczyk's post entitled Google - we take it all, give nothing back and some of the responses to that post , Adam Bosworth has fired off a missive entitled We all stand on the shoulders of giants . He writes Recently I pointed Read More... Posted Saturday, January 01, 2005 11:17 PM by DareObasanjo | 6 Comments