Generic News Roundup


Posted

in


  • Roller 0.9.7.2 is out.
  • Rick: “Just for S&G’s I hacked Sam’s Wx3pa.py script and wrote a 2 paned aggregator.”
  • Russ: “BlogPlanet is a new Java-based moblogging app that came out a week or so ago… What a kick ass little MIDlet!”  It looks quite slick.
  • Dave Winer: “One of the things we talked about at dinner last night was the stupidity of forking RSS among the little guys.”
  • Sam Ruby: “I can make sure that the RSS validator checks for compliance.”
  • Colin Fahey [via Slashdot]: “But, OH NO!  I actually answered two questions correctly on the test!!”  He’s got tons of other geeky stuff at his website.
  • PC World: “Microsoft later this year will offer new pricing for its Xbox Live online gaming service, raising the price of its “starter pack” by $20 and offering a new monthly subscription option for $5.99, the company announced Thursday.”
  • CNet: Sun Microsystems and Oracle plan to attend the first meeting to discuss a proposed Web services standard, despite their support of a rival specification.”  They’re talking about BPEL: Business Process Execution Language.
  • Dave Winer: “HP: Semantic Blogging. PDF.”  The demo blog feels a lot like blosxom/blojsom etc.  I don’t know what to make of it either.