Archive for the 'feeds' Tag

Facebook is everyone’s least hated under-one-roof social networking monster. It’s aesthetically neutral, perhaps even pretty. It’s open with feeds and iCal subscriptions and least evil of all, it allows you to specify an external source for your Facebook blog.

This is great step out from other social nets like MySpace, which expect you to remain within [...]

Wordpress have inexplicably broken full-text feeds in Wordpress 2.1 but truncating any articles which contain a separator — used to reduce the length of articles on the front page.

If you’ve upgraded to 2.1 and not noticed yet (I mean, it’s not like we read our own feeds, is it?) the good news [...]

Fatty isn’t convinced by my favoured hAtom use-case for providing Comment Feeds, so I’ve got two more reasons why hAtom might yet save the world.

I like Microformats. The potential for doing Really Useful Stuff with the internet is immense: Embedding events and contact information into regular (X)HTML pages, representing relationships and now, describing feeds.

At first glance, people might wonder what the point of the hAtom µF is. Every blogging CMS under the sun already offers content feeds, why [...]

I honestly hope that this year we see a bank stand up and say “here’s an online service that’s actually integral to the way you work”. At a time when public internet services are sucking up Ajax and open data from party pitchers, I want to know whether online banking is going to make a similar, user-centric leap forward.