Another RSS Aggregator for Palms

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Aggregator inside aggregator

Aggregator inside aggregator 09/21/2004 10:57 PM
You know whenever people post screenshots of emulators, how it can be weird to see Windows running on a Mac? (Even weirder if you actually use an emulator, until you get used to it.)

Here’s a similar side effect of having embedded a browser in NetNewsWire. (Click for full-size screen shots.)



Even though it’s odd, there’s actually a point to it—we discovered that some people use multiple aggregators. One for fun stuff and one for work, that kind of thing.

If one is browser-based and the other embeds a browser, then, well, hey, you’ve got something like the above.

Super Palms

Super Palms 01/09/2003 01:29 PM
Brighthand: Sony Unveils $800 Wireless, Multimedia CLIE NZ90 Handheld. Take the NX70V , add Bluetooth, bump the camera to 2...

Older Palms Won't Get Wi-Fi

Older Palms Won't Get Wi-Fi 12/11/2003 06:07 PM
Internet.com Dec 11 2003 5:51PM ET

Palms, Pocket PCs and innovation

Palms, Pocket PCs and innovation 12/04/2003 02:27 PM
This has been tackled before (and certainly will be again), but Stephen Wildstrom explains why we've been seeing so much innovation with Palms lately (the Tapwave Zodiac, the Sony Clie UX50, the Treo 600) while Pocket PCs remain largely uniform. We do know that Microsoft is supposed to be loosening up a bit and letting manufacturers take more risks with Pocket PC design, but it's certainly taking a while to see some results. Read...

Business Week talk on the Two Palms

Business Week talk on the Two Palms 06/25/2004 03:54 PM
Cliff Edwards, of Business Week's Streetsmart writes, "Both before and after Palm split into tw...

Rumors of two new Palms: the Zire 31 and
the Tungsten E2

Rumors of two new Palms: the Zire 31 and
the Tungsten E2 01/09/2004 09:57 PM
Rumors of two new handhelds from palmOne. The Zire 31 would be a follow-up to the Zire 21, and is said to have a 200MHz...

Mixing and Matching, 2 New Palms Emerge

Mixing and Matching, 2 New Palms Emerge 04/28/2004 07:02 PM
Palm, the company who spawned the current age of palmtops and smart phones, has two new models out. Do they break new ground?

Sync Buddy 2.0.1 Syncs Palms and Mac OS
X

Sync Buddy 2.0.1 Syncs Palms and Mac OS
X 04/11/2005 08:22 PM
Jeff Carlson (~160 words)

Sync Buddy 2.0.1 Syncs Palms and Mac OS X -- Back in the early days of the PalmPilot, Florent Pillet released Palm Buddy (later renamed Sync Buddy), a Mac OS program for backing up data from a Palm OS handheld by opening an active connection between the two machines. Now, Pillet has rewritten Sync Buddy for Mac OS X. Sync Buddy 2.0.1 can back up handhelds via USB, Bluetooth, and Wi-Fi connections. It also lets you install files and transfer photos, as well as copy files to removable media such as SD cards. The utility is compatible with Hot Sync Manager (which Palm Desktop uses to synchronize data) and Mark/Space's The Missing Sync software, automatically disabling them while Sync Buddy is running, and re-enabling them when it's done. Sync Buddy 2.0.1 costs $25, and is available as a 4.3 MB download. [JLC]

SanDisk on why they're SD WiFi card for
Palms isn't ready

SanDisk on why they're SD WiFi card for
Palms isn't ready 12/11/2003 01:16 PM
SanDisk 802.11b SD expansion card still isn't ready to be used with Palm handhelds, and rather than leave everyone in the dark about why the...

SanDisk delays WiFi card for Palms --
again

SanDisk delays WiFi card for Palms --
again 01/27/2004 12:37 PM
No shocker here: SanDisk has once again delayed the release of drivers that would make their SD 802.11b expansion card compatible with handhelds running on...

New Aggregator

New Aggregator 01/09/2003 01:29 PM
The horribly-named Beaver is a "FeedReader replacement" that is in the early stages of development and "very feature incomplete." Not...

"MP3Blogs Aggregator"

"MP3Blogs Aggregator" 07/19/2004 08:24 PM

Simple Aggregator 1.0

Simple Aggregator 1.0 07/11/2004 09:11 AM
A Web-based news aggregator.

Aggregator utf-16 tests

Aggregator utf-16 tests 06/03/2004 05:16 PM
I've converted yesterday's utf-8 tests to utf-16 (technically utf-16le, complete with the approrpriate BOM).  For those that want to play along with RSS, there also are RSS 1.0, RSS 2.0, and RSS 2.0 + Atom versions.

Dean Aggregator

Dean Aggregator 01/23/2004 02:21 PM
Mike Muegel, a Dean supporter, has put together a very cool little tool that aggregates blogs related to the Dean campaign. It sits in your system tray and pulls in entries from a whole bunch o' sites, and lets you cycle through them one at a time. In my experience with it over the past few weeks, it's been very well-behaved, updating itself cleanly. Desktop Dean is free, of course. You could probably talk to Mike about having him do a version for some other topic you or your business cares about......

Yahoo Re-aggregator

Yahoo Re-aggregator 01/23/2004 01:23 AM

After a false start earlier this month, My Yahoo now has an RSS aggregator.

When the module appeared on my Yahoo and I complained about it, I was informed by Yahoo employees that it was a bug that caused the pre-beta module to show up on some My Yahoo pages. It wasn’t an intentional marketing effort, but the buzz created by the snafu didn’t hurt Yahoo’s cause.

The module isn’t yet available on the standard list of My Yahoo modules. To add it you’ll need to go to add.my.yahoo.com/rss.

MP3Blogs Aggregator

MP3Blogs Aggregator 07/19/2004 10:11 PM
MP3Blogs Aggregator .. Mp3blogs

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NewsGator: Beyond the Aggregator

NewsGator: Beyond the Aggregator 07/03/2004 09:23 PM

Why Did We Invest in NewsGator?: Here's a post from a venture capitalist about why he invested in NewsGator.

The misperception is that NewsGator is only an Outlook plug-in. While the most popular product from NewsGator is currently their Outlook-based aggregator, what really turned us on when we dug into NewsGator as a potential investment is NewsGator Online Services (NGOS).

Greg Reinacker's vision is much broader than simply an RSS aggregator - his goal is to provide RSS content on any device. NewsGator currently provides clients for Outlook, the Web, POP email, mobile devices (web-based and wap), and Microsoft Media Center (how cool is it to get an RSS feed on your TV?).

He makes a good point — NewsGator has really extended past Outlook. They started with that, and the Outlook plug-in is what they're most well-known for, but I just wrapped up 30 days with Newsgator Online Services (NOS), and I can tell you that they've deftly transcended the aggregator.

While working with NOS, I got the...feeling, that news and information was just out there, everywhere, and it was up to me how I wanted to receive it. They have options to push information to about any device, on any platform. I've never felt more saturated by news in my life than during those 30 days.

Information was everywhere — so much so that I stopped thinking in terms of this aggreagtor or that protocol. I was just swimming in information, and the method in which I chose to receive it was almost incidental. Petty, even.

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War Coverage in Your Aggregator

War Coverage in Your Aggregator 03/20/2003 11:53 AM

Sorry for the lack of posts, but everyone in my house has been felled by colds, including me. I'm also trying to keep up with current events, as are you I'm sure. Since CNN isn't providing free, live video feeds, I'm in search of others, but Andy Rhinehart and the Spartanbarg Herald-Journal are doing their part by providing an RSS feed of war-related content from the Associated Press.

Rippy the Aggregator 0.10

Rippy the Aggregator 0.10 09/26/2004 08:42 PM
A lightweight RSS aggregator in PHP.

Yahoo Aggregator

Yahoo Aggregator 01/07/2004 06:17 PM

Yahoo is beta testing an RSS Aggregator that integrates into the My Yahoo service, but their advertising of it has fallen flat. Because I choose the contents of a My Yahoo page, I have a sense of ownership of the page. Personalized pages tend to evoke that feeling. So imagine my surprise when I open My Yahoo today and find that there’s a new content module for RSS added to the top of the page. I wasn’t sure whether to feel excited or violated. It’s great that Yahoo is embracing RSS, but they messed with my page.

Nevertheless I tried testing it, but when trying to add feeds or search for feeds, I received a message saying that I didn’t have access. Curious to see if I’d get the same message if I tried removing the module, I hit the remove button. Now it’s gone and there doesn’t seem to be a way to add it back.

It might seem strange that I’m complaining that I can’t get something back when I didn’t want it in the first place, but it goes back to that sense of ownership. I know that content module exists, but I can’t add it to my page.

New RSS News Aggregator

New RSS News Aggregator 12/05/2003 03:14 AM

Chris Pirillo has released a new RSS news aggregator done with Macromedia's Flash. I've tried it and it looks different and works nice, that's for sure, but for now I'm sticking with my NewsGator.

Bayesian Aggregator

Bayesian Aggregator 12/02/2003 08:47 AM
In a comment, Kevin Jordan writes: 348North News is a normal aggregator in much of the way you think of it. However, it allows me to identify keywords or themes that it puts together into phrases — and then matches up the phrases with like articles. Like a cross between Google News and Daypop (but that makes it sound much more complex than it is). If you want to see an "interests" based summary for me, check out the Phrase Index. I use fairly general keywords so as not to miss out on the future items. I haven't tried...

BlogBridge aggregator hits 1.0

BlogBridge aggregator hits 1.0 04/12/2005 11:06 AM
BlogBridge, the aggregator I've been using for a few months in beta, has gone to 1.0. There are a few things to like about it, not least of which is that it's a free, open source project done by someone I know well and trust 100%, Pito Salas. Blogbridge is a client, but it stores your info on a server so you can use it on multiple machines. It tries to help you discover new weblogs by noting links in your feeds. You can rate your feeds and this somehow magically gets fed into a community rating system. (I'm not...

Aggregator Market Share

Aggregator Market Share 03/23/2005 08:02 PM
In reply to one of my Browser Market Share postings, Ian Brown wrote to point out that with an increasing portion of the traffic going through newsreaders, it might be interesting to do some breakdown on that. So I did. [Updated with pointers & percentages.]...

ANT - video bl0gging aggregator

ANT - video bl0gging aggregator 02/05/2005 09:12 PM

ANT is a coolio video blogging aggregator I saw previewed in NYC at Vloggercon a couple of weeks ago.

It's now ready for folks to beat on.

Enjoy.

Video blogging is expanding the blogosphere as we speak. And maybe - just MAYBE we can get some meta-data into these feeds!

This screen ghrab features Dylan Verdi - the world's youngest video blogger.

I met Dylan and her dad - in the middle of a snowstorm.

MSN Quietly Tests an RSS Aggregator

MSN Quietly Tests an RSS Aggregator 03/17/2005 03:59 AM
MSN quietly is experimenting with a Microsoft-developed RSS aggregator.

Book Review Aggregator

Book Review Aggregator 01/03/2005 07:33 PM
Metacritic Books. Metacritic has been covering reviews for movies, music, and games for years, but now has started aggregating books reviews, with about 150 books so far.

Dave's Convention aggregator

Dave's Convention aggregator 07/23/2004 03:09 PM
Dave Winer's built a Convention blog iste that aggregates blogs from people attending the Convention (not just the credentialed ones). Looks great. Thanks, Dave....

Humor Roundup from My Aggregator

Humor Roundup from My Aggregator 12/24/2004 12:58 PM

• What Famous People of the Past Would Have Googled
• Bohemian Art Show
• A Giant Step Forward for Punctuation
• Modern Advice for Parents-to-be

Great RSS Quotes from My Aggregator

Great RSS Quotes from My Aggregator 12/24/2004 12:58 PM

• RSS: a Shift, from What...to What?
  "He also neatly sort of answers his own question - with greater precision than I can ever muster - by saying: 'If I visit houses of content, as I seem to do on the Web, that is very different than the content as “visitor” to my house.'... What we’re seeing is the creation of personalised information hypermarkets.... Over time, you develop a rich cocktail of sources and you develop a new habit for browsing information. Some things you look at hourly, some daily, and some you deliberately save till Friday pm for a catch up. This is light years away from sitting down at the table in the morning looking at your paper, or even your paper’s website.”
   
• RSS and Blog Directories
  "Inspired by The Media Drop's list of newspaper RSS feeds, I thought I'd compile a list of RSS directories. Enjoy and spread the link."
   
• Newsmap as a Model for Smart Aggregation
  "Information overload. It’s the next big issue in publishing, and technology in general. The day you have 400 e-mails in your inbox, 900 new items in your RSS aggregator, and 8 Instant Messenger windows on your screen will come. For some people, it’s already here.... The key to our information gathering lives is all about smart aggregation. The days of media companies deciding what’s on your 'front page' are numbered. Within five years, I believe customizable newsreader technology (whether client-side like Net News Wire, or server-side like Bloglines), will be as prevalent as the web is right now."
   
• 500 down, 3061 to go
  "At the beginning of this week I had 310 feeds showing around 25,000 unread posts. I had toyed with the idea of declaring RSS bankruptcy and just starting again, but I was getting increasingly unhappy with chaotic state of my feeds and deep down I knew that hitting 'mark all posts read' would do nothing to solve the problem in the long run."

Aggregator i18n tests

Aggregator i18n tests 06/02/2004 06:44 PM
Here is a simple set of tests for verifying that an aggregator properly handles various combinations of international characters and character references.  The desired result is that the title of every entry should be displayed as Iñtërnâtiônàlizætiøn. This is not meant to be comprehensive, in particular, it focuses only on one encoding (utf-8, which is guaranteed to be supported by any conformant XML parser), and doesn't do mode base64.

Anticipating the Aggregator Shakes

Anticipating the Aggregator Shakes 03/11/2003 10:45 AM

Aargh! It no longer matters if I have high-speed internet access this week at the Computers in Libraries conference because the laptop isn't back from being repaired anyway. Hopefully I can get the Stowaway keyboard working for my Clie or else I'll have to resort to - gasp - paper for my conference notes. How archaic.

So that means no blogging or news aggregator and minimal email Tuesday through Friday. I'm actually going to have to speak about RSS on Thursday without having seen any for three days!

I'm not sure what's more pathetic - me at a libraries & technology conference without internet access, the fact that none of the hotels around Dupont Circle offer high-speed internet access (let alone WiFi), or the fact that the CIL conference is held at a hotel that doesn't offer any type of high-speed access.

So if you see me at the conference and I'm twitching, it's just a symptom of withdrawal.

AvantGo is the Original Aggregator

AvantGo is the Original Aggregator 02/26/2003 02:37 PM
After seeing this story today about the Anatomy of a mobile device user, a survey conducted by AvantGo, I realized...

Advice for Libraries from My Aggregator

Advice for Libraries from My Aggregator 04/29/2004 11:11 PM

PC Mag Says Death to 802.11b (Almost)
"PC Magazine rounds up several 802.11g routers, and says they're cheap enough, they're good enough: 802.11b no longer enjoys a large enough (or any) price differential for quality Wi-Fi gateways that include WPA encryption support, PC Mag says. So while you can still find 802.11b devices on the market, they recommend new gear have 802.11g built in...." [Wi-Fi Networking News]
Lesson: Make sure you buy 802.11g for your library.

Making CD-R's Last
"From Doug Kaye I learned of an interesting article on how long CD-R's will last and things you can do to increase or decrease that time. I've always just popped down to Staples and bought the cheapest disks I could find. For some of my uses (the latest Suse distro, for example) that's fine. But this article makes the point that if you're using the disk to archive important material, you need to be more careful. The article contains information on how to select good media and media that's appropriate for the drive that you'll be recording on. This may be especially important for organizations building large collections of CD-R's that they need to keep to meet regulatory or other business requirements." [Windley's Enterprise Computing Weblog]
Lesson: If your library is using CD-Rs for backups, archiving, or preservation, pick the right ones!

Browser or Aggregator? Some numbers.

Browser or Aggregator? Some numbers. 02/10/2003 12:58 AM
I got to wondering about browsers vs. aggregators coming to my blog. I'm going to assume that anyone who hits http://jeremy.zawodny.com/blog/ is a browser and anyone who hits http://jeremy.zawodny.com/blog/index.rdf is an aggregator. It's simple and I have the data for...

Reading Canter in an aggregator.....

Reading Canter in an aggregator..... 07/28/2004 11:08 AM

... is like watching The Matrix on a Teletype machine/printer: you not only miss the entire experience, but most of the headlines picked up by the feed are uninteresting at quick glance, whereas the stories themselves usually are pretty good. Sure, better summary style might do the trick, as Jon Udell often writes about, but that would miss the point, and the impact/speed with which worthy items appear. I used to moan about the confusing (non-existing or subtle) quoting convention, but now I've told him that I don't care anymore... where would we be if Marc Canter gave up his shoot-from-the-hip style, and increasingly-rich-media blog pages?

[My Dog]

Thanks Marc.

Marc Eisenstadt is one of my favorite people. And not just because he bought me a headset and camera (which I haven't even used yet.)

I tty and keep my life as close to 'normal' people as possible - so ONE DAY I'll pull out that camera and start using Marc's stuff - but first......

Trusting Libraries for Your Aggregator

Trusting Libraries for Your Aggregator 05/24/2004 01:41 AM

TV News in a Postmodern World: The Busine$$ of RSS

"Want a glimpse of tomorrow? Innovators Bill French and Harry Hayes are SmartStream Alliance™ and have a product that's so compelling that news executives of every sort will be scrambling to be first in their market with it....

RSxStream is a sophisticated and ingenious software engine that takes RSS, Atom, RDF, XML, any other sort of feed or data stream, or any other content that lives on the Internet and makes it available to the desktop via a contextual reader. End users are given a state-of-the-art reader — capable of grabbing anything from live TV to music to video-on-demand to simple RSS text feeds. If it's available via the Internet (today), it can be routed through the RSxStream engine. The end users have complete control of what sources they choose, as they would with any other RSS reader. The difference is those choices are drawn indirectly, through the RSxStream software....

What's crucial to understand with this is that whoever provides the reader to the public also owns the engine, and THAT is the business end of RSS. It means advertising can be crafted into the design of the reader and delivered based on the choices, habits and interests of the end user. It's contextual advertising nirvana. This type of business currently does not exist, but it's ideal for local media outlets. Why? Because we're in the information distribution business, and getting the reader onto the public's desktops is the key to its success. Moreover, if the local media entities don't do it, somebody else will, and they will take all those ad dollars with them." [DONATA Communications, via JD on MX]

I love the idea of providing the reader and even pre-populating it with feeds relevant to the intended audience,  but I hate the idea of some company monetizing it. I'd much rather get a grant and have libraries provide this information-centric software. We're in the "information distribution" business, too, except we're interested in people getting information without strings attached.

Aggregator HTTP tests updated

Aggregator HTTP tests updated 12/28/2003 06:47 PM

The aggregator HTTP tests have been updated. (68 words)

Note: The "dive into mark" feed you are currently subscribed to is deprecated. If your aggregator supports it, you should upgrade to my Atom feed, which includes both summaries and full content.

Grok Description matches for Another RSS Aggregator for Palms
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amaroK 1.1

amaroK 1.1 09/26/2004 05:28 PM
The audio player for KDE.

amaroK 1.0

amaroK 1.0 06/17/2004 12:15 AM
A media player for KDE.

amaroK

amaroK 11/15/2003 07:51 PM
amaroK 0.7.0 released

amaroK 0.7.0

amaroK 0.7.0 11/16/2003 12:15 AM
A media player for KDE.

amaroK 0.8.1

amaroK 0.8.1 01/06/2004 06:55 AM
A media player for KDE.

amaroK 1.0.2

amaroK 1.0.2 08/05/2004 06:09 PM
A media player for KDE.

amaroK 1.1-beta2

amaroK 1.1-beta2 09/13/2004 05:18 AM
The audio player for KDE.

amaroK 1.0-beta1

amaroK 1.0-beta1 04/10/2004 02:11 PM
A media player for KDE.

amaroK 1.0-beta4

amaroK 1.0-beta4 06/01/2004 05:13 PM
A media player for KDE.

amaroK 1.0-beta2

amaroK 1.0-beta2 04/23/2004 04:15 AM
A media player for KDE.

amaroK 1.1-beta1

amaroK 1.1-beta1 08/18/2004 08:41 PM
A media player for KDE.

amaroK 0.9-beta1

amaroK 0.9-beta1 02/15/2004 05:58 AM
A media player for KDE.

amaroK 1.0-beta3

amaroK 1.0-beta3 05/10/2004 11:49 AM
A media player for KDE.

amaroK 1.2.3 (Default branch)

amaroK 1.2.3 (Default branch) 03/29/2005 09:16 AM
amaroK is a sound system-independent audio-player for Unix. Its interface uses a powerful "browser" metaphor that allows you to create playlists that make the most of your music collection.

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Changes:
New features include a DCOP call for accessing amaroK's database, which allows querying arbitrary information from the collection. The graphical equalizer script was improved. A global shortcut for muting has been added. Several bugs in the GStreamer engine and in the main application were fixed.

amaroK 1.2.2 (Default branch)

amaroK 1.2.2 (Default branch) 03/14/2005 06:19 PM
amaroK is a sound system-independent audio-player for Unix. Its interface uses a powerful "browser" metaphor that allows you to create playlists that make the most of your music collection.

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Changes:
New features include theming support, making it possible to style the context browser with your favorite designs, and a new graphical control script for the equalizer. There are bugfixes for the GStreamer backend, which can now play Vorbis radio streams with full metadata support. The LibVisual support has been fixed, and several other improvements have been made.

AmaroK is a step up for Linux audio
players

AmaroK is a step up for Linux audio
players 03/14/2005 04:05 PM
With the release of amaroK 1.2 last month, I finally found the Linux music player I've been wanting. When I moved to Linux full-time about two years ago, the only software that I missed from Windows was a quality audio player. Linux audio players lacked features like cover downloads, smart playlists, or easy burning to CD. Even worse, with a large collection of more than 10,000 tracks, the Linux players generally locked up when I tried to load them all, or at least slowed to an unbearable crawl. AmaroK has all of the basic features of modern Windows audio players, and some features that I haven't seen in any other player.

Force QuickTime streams to play in
QuickTime

Force QuickTime streams to play in
QuickTime 08/06/2004 09:57 AM
Yesterday over on the Macworld forums, a reader was having trouble getting QuickTime streams from enya.com to play properly. When clicked, the streams (from the Video section of the site) would open the user's RealOne Player,...

Live365 introduces Radio365 player

Live365 introduces Radio365 player 07/06/2004 11:38 AM
Internet radio network Live365 on Tuesday announced Radio365, a Mac and Windows-compatible Internet radio player that lets users tune in to thousands of Live365 stations. The software, previo usly available as a public beta version, lets users browse by genre or search by artist, album, track and other criteria. The Mac version of the Radio365 application also links Internet radio with digital downloads through the iTunes Music Store. Radio365 costs US$14.95, and is available for download as a free 35 hour trail version. System requirements call for Mac OS X v10.2 or later.

Nicecast 1.5 supports Live365, MegaSeg,
more

Nicecast 1.5 supports Live365, MegaSeg,
more 02/17/2004 11:36 AM
Audio software developer Rogue Amoeba LLC's Shoutcast alternative, Nicecast, got a nice boost to v1.5 on Tuesday. The new release is available for download and is a free update for registered users.

Country and Bluegrass Internet Radio
Station Nominated for Awards by Live365

Country and Bluegrass Internet Radio
Station Nominated for Awards by Live365 04/10/2005 12:54 PM
Cybergrass Apr 10 2005 4:56PM GMT

Enclosures

Enclosures 09/23/2004 07:41 PM
We almost didn’t add support for enclosures to NetNewsWire 2.0—because they give me the willies. Experts have assured me that my fear of enclosures is irrational and paranoid, and so we went ahead and added support.

We didn’t do the download-enclosures-at-night feature that Radio UserLand has—enclosures are only downloaded when you click on them.

But we did something else: we added AppleScript support for enclosures. You could write a script that gets the enclosure info from your news items and then downloads the enclosures—so you could write a script that downloads at night. Or on your lunch break. Or that just downloads mp3s, or whatever.

My hope is that somebody will take this as an opportunity to do something cool and write an enclosure-downloading script (perhaps an AppleScript Studio app?) that other folks can use.

FeedDemon and RSS enclosures

FeedDemon and RSS enclosures 05/12/2004 09:45 AM

The RSS enclosure element is used to attach media (such as video) to a news item. The original design of enclosures was to enable downloading media attached to news feeds while the computer wasn't in use - for example, downloading MP3s while you sleep - so you wouldn't have to wait.

I have to confess, though, that I was never wild about this idea, at least not for FeedDemon's purposes. If you read a news item that was just retrieved by your aggregator, you probably want to see the enclosure right then and there rather than wait for it to be downloaded when the computer is idle.

More importantly, much (but admittedly not all) of the Web's media is designed to be streamed, so rather than download enclosures, why not simply link to the media object and let the system's default media application take care of it? For example, if a news item has a video enclosure, just link to it and let the media application stream it to you - no wait, and no wasted hard drive space.

So, this is how FeedDemon handles RSS enclosures. If FeedDemon encounters a news item with an enclosure, you'll see a paper clip ("attachment") icon in the newspaper. Just click this icon to view the media.

Disney and RSS enclosures: 2 m served!

Disney and RSS enclosures: 2 m served! 02/11/2004 09:40 AM
Excellent!  Ross Mayfield also reports (via a presentation by Disney execs) on Disneys use of weblogs and wikis.  Very interesting stuff.  It seems that Disney is using RSS enclosures on a huge scale to distribute video:

Using RSS Enclosures to deliver video to 2 million broadband users. Some argue that enclosures don't scale and their not enough bandwidth, but >500M videos have been delivered in less than one year an have been able to scale bandwidth to demand, now moving towards caching at the edge. Most of the delivery is off-peak hours, especially from them to the cable head end, so bandwidth cost is nominal. P2P like Bittorrent and others may broaden this.

Wow!  This is great,It closely parallels our discussion yesterday!  Disney is really on the cutting edge.  This would be very fun to work on.  Given that they use Newsgator, it is likely that Greg may be selling us a bittorrent interface soon.

Multiple-enclosures on RSS items?

Multiple-enclosures on RSS items? 12/22/2004 01:10 AM

Disclaimer: These are my thoughts, not spec text.

This question comes up from time to time, and I've resisted answering it directly, thinking that anyone who really read the spec would come to the conclusion that RSS allows zero or one enclosures per item, and no more. The same is true for all other sub- elements of item, except category, where multiple elements are explicitly allowed. The spec refers to "the enclosure" in the singular. Regardless, some people persist in thinking that you may have more than one enclosure per item.

Okay, let's play it out. So if I have more than one enclosure per item, how do I specify the publication date for each enclosure? How do I specify the title, author, a link to comments, a description perhaps, or a guid? The people who want multiple enclosures suggest schemes that are so complicated that they're reduced to hand-waving before they get to the spec, which I would love to read, if it could be written. Some times some things are just too hard to do. This is one of them.

And there's a reason why it's too hard. Because you're throwing out the value of RSS and then trying to figure out how to bring it back. There's no need for items any more, so you might as well get rid of them. At the top level of channel would be a series of enclosures, and then underneath each enclosure, all the meta-data. Voila, problem solved. Only what have you actually solved? You've just re-created RSS, but instead of calling the main elements "item" we now call them "enclosure".

Sometimes linear thinking leads you to a dead-end, and this is one of those times, imho. You end up in a torus, there's no wall that says "you may go no further" but somehow you keep going in circles, chasing your tail, re-inventing RSS, when there's absolutely no need to.

So people ask how will we fit show notes into RSS? Maybe we won't. When you get into show notes, think outlines, and think about linking MP3s into outline structures. I think this has more potential. I could be wrong of course (not joking).

Comment here .

MVK Encrypted Hard Drive Enclosures

MVK Encrypted Hard Drive Enclosures 04/06/2005 11:31 AM

MVK has a new line of hard drive enclosures for the security folk, called the "impact Encrypted HDD Enclosure" line. Available in 40 bit and 128 bit encryption models, each enclosure includes three "security keys" necessary to access the data on the hard drive that is enclosed. I'll also guess and say that they require some sort of special formatting, because otherwise it seems like someone could just steal the entire assembly and remove the hard drive.

MKV external hard drive case with encryption [PC Watch]

WiebeTech drops prices on storage
enclosures

WiebeTech drops prices on storage
enclosures 02/10/2004 07:24 AM
WiebeTech today announced price reductions on the MicroGB800TM FireWire 800 / USB2 pocket drive...

FireWire Depot intros two FW/USB 2 combo
enclosures

FireWire Depot intros two FW/USB 2 combo
enclosures 07/15/2004 01:48 PM
FireWire Depot announced on Wednesday two new FireWire 400/USB 2.0 combo enclosures, one a 2. 5-inch model and the other its 3. 5-inch bigger sibling. Both feature all-aluminum bodies, two FireWire 400 ports and one USB 2.0 port, the ability to draw power from the bus with the option for an external power supply and a US$89.99 price.

WiebeTech announces price reductions on
FireWire enclosures

WiebeTech announces price reductions on
FireWire enclosures 03/19/2003 10:43 PM
WiebeTech has announced price reductions of its DesktopGB FireWire enclosures...

Green House XSIO Aluminum Hard Drive
Enclosures

Green House XSIO Aluminum Hard Drive
Enclosures 06/29/2004 01:39 PM

Why, these XSIO external hard drives enclosures from Green House look awfully familiar. Let me look at the specs; hrm, yes, aluminum, fanless, Mac OSX supporting towers ... huh, no, just doesn't ring a bell at all. The 120GB, 160GB, and 300GB USB 2.0 and FireWire drives will be available in July in Japan and will also work with Windows, if that's your OS of choice. In addition, software is included that will allow up to 8 hard disks to be recognized by the OS as a single virtual drive.
Read - Product Information (English) [TechJapan]
Read - Product Page [Green-HouseJP]

Camden Electronics DIN Rail Enclosures
Go Worldwide With OKW Distribution Deal

Camden Electronics DIN Rail Enclosures
Go Worldwide With OKW Distribution Deal 02/01/2005 09:11 PM
Camden Electronics' extensive range of DIN rail enclosures is now available worldwide through a distribution agreement with German company OKW. [PRWEB Jan 27, 2005]

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