March 4, 2003

Hacking via Google

An interesting story on Wired news about finding open web-based databaes using Google (via Scripting)

March 3, 2003

RSS News Aggregator on MSDN

Dare Obasanjo of Microsoft posted a a C# .Net News Aggregator on MSDN.

“The application utilizes XPath, XSLT, XML Schema, the DOM, and XML Serialization in the .NET Framework.” (via Don’s Spoutlet)

March 2, 2003

Google News to RSS

Julian Bond has a neat little PHP hack that will turn any Google News query into an RSS feed. I’m having a few encoding issues on my server, but for the most part it works well! Thanks Julian!

Update: I made a modfication to Julian’s hack and posted it here

March 1, 2003

Joltage Wi-Fi service ceases operations

Ahh, this is too bad, but I suppose no one is surprised …

“The high-speed wireless Net service, which launched less than a year ago, ceases operations because of slower-than-expected demand.” (via CNet)

February 28, 2003

Personal Web Proxy: Agent Frank

Agent Frank wants to learn about the user, observe preferences and habits, and become capable of automating many of the tedious tasks infovores face. Eventually, this will come to involve various forms of machine learning and analysis, & etc.

Note to self: Check this out when you get a chance.

February 27, 2003

RSS 2.0 Feed

I added a RSS 2.0 feed to hatch.org. The feed also includes a <comments> element for those aggregators that support it (like NG ;-)

February 27, 2003

Switch this;

Patrick from TechTV tries the “Switch”

“The biggest problem with switching isn’t the Mac or OS X. It’s when you have to deal with the Windows-centric parts of the world. If you can avoid them (most folks don’t need compatibility with odd applications in the office), you could be all set right out of the box with your Mac.”

The Slashdot thread about the article is also interesting

February 26, 2003

Three degrees of sarcasm

Yoz reviews Microsoft’s Three Degrees Beta, which is a new IM/chat/P2P/MP3 player designed for and apparently by teens.

Great quote: “As you’d expect, it’s all wrapped up in the kind of huge lurid skinnable UI that will have Alan Cooper wandering around the Redmond campus with a rifle.” (link via Ben)

February 26, 2003

Blogging via .Net and SOAP

Don Box’s Spoutlet: “I have seen the future and it combines SOAP and spell-checking.” (via DW)

February 25, 2003

Office, InfoPath, Exchange, BizTalk, SharePoint ; Oh my!

Everything is coming up XML for Microsoft this year …

I don’t know about you, but I think the hype machine out west has me under a spell, because I am starting to feel giddy when I think of the future business user of Office 2003 creating InfoPath docs that are passed around by Exchange, integrated into the enterprise workflow via BizTalk and spit out into digestible chunks to SharePoint.

Oh, the productivity ;-)