Essays and everything else

Every post since January 2000, newest first. The early ones are short.

June 8, 2003

RSS Marketing
Greg Reinacker talks about companies using RSS feeds to market products instead of opt-in lists and/or the dreaded spam…
June 5, 2003

See SPOT run this fall
It would be pretty cool to get an RSS-2-SPOT gateway up and running so we can read our newsfeeds inbetween trips to the fridge for that next beer ;-)
June 4, 2003

Microsoft granted US patent for “interactive entertainment”
Martin sent me a link to this article by Alexander Wolfe of EmbeddedWatch.com about Microsoft newly granted US patent for “interactive entertainment”.
June 3, 2003

eBay search to RSS feed
Nice! Just enter an eBay search phrase and this little script will turn the results into an RSS feed that you can subscribe to in your favorite news aggregator
June 2, 2003

TiVo Plans to Sell Information on Customers’ Viewing Habits
Catherine sent me a link to this report about TiVo in the NY Times, which I’m sure is making waves with privacy advocates…
May 30, 2003

Nullsoft’s Waste Dumped?
“WASTE is a software product and protocol that enables secure distributed communication for small (on the order of 10-50 nodes) trusted groups of users.”
May 29, 2003

WordPress b2/cafelog derivative
Congratulations to Matthew and Mike on the release of WordPress, which is the official fork in the b2/cafélog blog tool.
May 29, 2003

Xbox and Linux in car multimedia
Just in case you have too much free-time while driving, it might be nice to get in a quick game and a movie or two, with this.
May 28, 2003

Geek Test
<wink>I stopped answering these after the first page because I overloaded the check-box buffer of my browser.</wink> (link via Doc)
May 28, 2003

PlayStation 2 successor: PSX
“PSX will offer a DVD recorder, a 120GB hard drive, a TV tuner, an Ethernet port, a USB 2.0 port and a Memory Stick slot.” (via CNet)