Microsoft RSS Blog : Presentations

“Mom, I am on M-TV!”

rss — Tue, 01 Aug 2006 09:30:53 GMT

MSDN TV that is. At the end of June MSDN TV published my episode on RSS in IE7 and the RSS Platform. It's 15min short and gives an overview including demos of the RSS lightweight reading experience in IE7, the RSS Platform and how publishers can enable feed discovery, emit feeds, and Simple List Extensions (SLE).

Let me know if you are interested in more screen casts and what topics you'd like to hear about.

-Walter vonKoch

Now on Video: "Using the RSS Platform on Windows - Syndication Goes Mainstream"

rss — Fri, 05 May 2006 15:50:00 GMT

All Mix06 talks have been made available on video for anyone to watch at http://sessions.mix06.com/

This includes the keynote by Bill Gates as well as my talk about the RSS Platform (ppt, zip) which I summarized a few weeks back. Enjoy!

-Walter vonKoch

RSS at Mix06

rss — Fri, 24 Feb 2006 10:06:00 GMT

A quick plug for Mix06 - it's coming up fast (Mar 20-22), so get registered quickly.

In case you missed it, Mix06 is a conference that’s focused on Internet technologies so, not surprisingly, RSS will be there in force, with a bunch of sessions that feature RSS fairly prominently.

We'll have a session on the Windows RSS Platform, and you’ll see aspects of the platform show up in several other sessions and keynotes.

The Channel9 team is doing a series of videocasts on the Mix sessions. Check them out.

Members of the RSS team will be there for the entire time, so if you’re planning on being there and you’d like chat, drop us a line. It’s in Las Vegas, so how can it not be fun?

- Sean

Team RSS at PDC '05

rss — Thu, 15 Sep 2005 22:32:00 GMT

The Windows RSS team is well represented at PDC '05 in LA (session feed). At 2:15pm today, Amar Gandhi (Group Program Manager of the Windows RSS team), will be presenting on "Windows Vista: Building RSS-enabled applications."

So, if you're here in LA, join us at 2:15pm in room 403AB.

We've also got a bunch of machines set up for hands-on labs so that people can try out the platform themselves with members of the team available to answer questions. We're in the Data and Systems track.

If you're not here at PDC, don't worry - we'll post the demos online for you to check out as quickly as possible. The slides are here:

PDC 2005: DAT320 Windows Vista: Building RSS-enabled applications

- Sean (and the rest of the team down here in LA)

Update 9/27/2005: Added a link to the slide deck.

The Blog Business Summit - What we heard

rss — Fri, 26 Aug 2005 12:17:00 GMT

Last week, Dean and Robert Scoble spoke at the Blog Business Summit in San Francisco.

For those who couldn't make it, Peter Levinson has a great blow-by-blow of the talk at The Editor's Blog, while Ian Kennedy pulls out some of the highlights and has some interesting insights over on Flashpoint. Infoworld did a nice writeup, as well.

Both during the keynote and talking to everyone afterwards, we heard a few things come up a few times, and they're worth repeating:

First, as Peter mentions in his writetup, spam, spyware and security in general are issues high on people's minds. Peter describes out a few measures we've taken to keep the user protected from malicious or sneaky websites. Security and privacy are big issues for us. In the run-up to PDC 2005 (where Amar Gandhi, Group Program Manager of the RSS team will be giving a developer-focused talk on building RSS-enabled applications in Windows Vista), we'll have more to say about the steps we're taking to keep users secure when using RSS.
Second, there are a lot of opinions out there about how we're naming the RSS features in IE.That topic is worthy of its own post, so I'll simply say: the feedback is great.
- On a related topic, it was pointed out at the summit that Amy Gahran of Contentious is the pioneer of the term "webfeeds" (via a contest she set up in April of last year), and I want acknowledge that contribution. It's no doubt due to her efforts that the term permeated enough that we picked up on the term without realizing where it originated.
Third, there's excitement around the idea of lists in RSS, but some questions and feedback as well. The feedback we heard has been incorporated into the spec, and a more detailed explanation has been posted.

Thanks again to those who came out to the BBS05, and thanks to the organizers for a great conference.

- Sean

Update: Included links to the updated SLX spec.