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- Make songbird look like spotify: http://addons.songbirdnest.com/addon/1440
- Got it, thanks Paul!
- Email me your email address so I can invite you Mike (paul@paulmwatson.com)
- Happy New Year to you, as well! I was stopping by to see if you would be willing to lend a reader a Spotify invitation. I am desperately hoping to be able try out the service. Thanks! Mike
- Nice one Jamie. Even more ironic is that that "mass production" is probably still underpaid, underage workers in some 3rd world country sweat-shop.
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Whenever I read about someone proposing to add a dozen or more new elements to RSS I ask myself; why not use or propose a MicroFormat instead? It requires less tooling, fragile aggregators won’t choke on it, developers can innovate quicker without waiting for extensive RSS spec.
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1 year ago
1 year ago
And for the kinds of companies wanting to use product meta-data in RSS the source would be a database and server-side application. Amazon and co. wouldn't change to XML tools just to get extra elements in an RSS feed and they wouldn't do it to get MicroFormats either. But the RSS producer should be easily configurable to insert the MicroFormat (and even extra RSS elements) from the product database.
The benefit of the MicroFormat is to the end-user who doesn't need updated tools to gain the benefit of the extra data. In Google Reader it would just be HTML and to a machine it would be easily parsable data.