Stream of consciousness:
- Maybe someday, saved by Longhorn :-) (my apologies to the Fixx)
- Cool orange shoes sported by Dean Hachamovitch and Amar Gandhi
- Showing the Death Star (the Microsoft campus!) - The power to monopolize an industry is insignificant compared to the power of the RSS and the blog.
- Scoble + camera + enclosure = "freaky"
- 2005 - feeds are everywhere
- 15 million MSN spaces
- browse, search, subscribe - not just a feature
- "We believe in subscribe" very deeply
- Betting big on RSS in Longhorn for developers and users
- RSS enabled everywhere
- Providing RSS platform
- Add extensions to make it better and easier
- Demo of IE 7
- Looks like Firefox and Safari
- Easy subscription just like FF and Safari
- Every app has access to RSS subscription (there are APIs for it!)
- showing calendar and photo apps
- it's not just about audio, video, it's about enclosure tags
- Showing Calendar in office
- Outlook 2003: each event has an RSS item, puts as an enclosure, the iCalendar file
- "synch engine" downloads the iCal stuff from the feed and keeps it in sync
- wrote 200 lines of C# to talk to RSS APIs, if there are any feeds with iCal events (.ics files), add them to Outlook
- Boris: why not double click on current events, why not do it on existing aggregators without writing code?
- Photo blog demo of trip to France
- wrote simple app that shows it as a slideshow with the blog text floating above
- trying to encapsulate RSS complexity so developer can focus on their app
- subscribe to blogs, news, feeds of content and lists of content
- RSS 2.0 extensions for lists
- Amazon demo
- subscribe to wishlists
- is smart enough to understand removal from wishlist (unlike RSS without this extension)
- mark up your data and you can provide interesting views to IE7 and other apps that know about the list extension
- Simple List Extensions - Microsoft spec available under Creative Commons, also at MS site today at noon
- Larry Lessig video
- Support RSS all flavours (0.9x, 1.0, 2.0, Atom)
- IE7 support of Enclosure downloading - platform does downloading not IE7
- Use BITS (background intelligent transfer service) - used to download Windows Updates as well as enclosures
- we think the answer is yes
- if it looks like IE, it will be IE
- if it looks like Outlook, it will be Outlook
- Synch support built in
- Boris - community process for working on spec, email is not a community process !
- Feedback
- Scoble - use Channel 9 Wiki for community process working on the spec
- Bob Wyman - why not use IETF and W3C? instead of just doing it yourself
- Microsoft - working the way Dave Winer works
- Question - can I subscribe to a RSS feed of software updates to my 5 PCs? It's up to the developers
- What works in XP? - RSS discovery, preview, common feed list are in XP as well as Longhorn, Synch may not work
- Marc Canter please summarize extension - using enclosures how? doing viewing source?
- Can't commit to Outlook support YET
- Steve Rubel: is this "extend and embrace" lite? Give me evidence that we are really living under "Jedi rule" :-) ? Need to restore balance to the force :-) Answer: the very fact that we are here and showing works in progress?
- Dave Winer - there's a lock-in step, Microsoft still has to sell the community on the aggregator. Way more open than Yahoo!
- Make PT - Updated Media Player with RSS support? - not known
- Security Violations and potential attacks? Went through security audit and normal MS Security development
- Free "I love RSS" jackets (swag) were made in Vancouver by Boardroom
- Dylan Greene - it's a bit "technical" now. How about Moms and Dads? Answer: still in beta, will be different in beta 1, need to make it easier
- What is the vision of the standard a couple of years from now? What's the business vision?