Eric Hayes, ehayes, -e

Podcast is very cool!

Okay, so a while back, i would look at Podcasting and think...  Interesting, but i don't get it.  It didn't seem to have a proper connection to RSS...  But...  that was then...

Recently, while working on our initial Podcast support for the 0.83 release of You Subscribe: RSS, I had an opportunity to spend some time, searching all around, finding Podcast feeds, subscribing to them, listen to them (wishing they were just on my iPod...), etc...  In the process, I kind of became hooked on it! So, now I can’t wait to get the next version of our Podcast support done and out to all of you You Subscribe: RSS users!!  What will it look like?  All I can offer right now is...  It will set Podcasting on edge, as the best, most seamless Podcast solution available! (This won't all come out in the next 2 weeks...  but will be rolled out over the next few releases, fear not!)

To that end… this is an open call to tell me, what are your favorite Podcasts & what do you wish you could do with them?!

Leave me a comment!!

-e

Usage Patterns

It has been quite an interesting week!  The cool thing about coming up for air & sharing with people what you’ve been up to is getting to chat with people in your space (now that they know you share a space).

Back in the early 90’s, when I was leading design and development on what would become the “in its time de facto standard” PIM (Personal Information Manager) for Macintosh (Now Up-to-Date & Contact), I had a chance to interact with quite a few different types of user in the PIM category.  What I quickly came to realize is that there are a number of types of user, and they all are certain their PIM should work exactly how they use it. Twelve years later I am back to watching & learning different “Usage Patterns” for a new PIM data type…  News!

That said, you can count on You Subscribe: RSS being capable of morphing itself seamlessly into different usage patterns!  As I get to bloging more about what’s happening behind the scenes for You Subscribe: RSS, some of the core design decisions that support this will become obvious.

We are already getting some great feedback!  This is exactly what I was hoping for when I said; “Let’s release it early & let users help guide us through the way they think it should work.”  So, with the basics available, You Subscribe: RSS is available for you to try. Give it a look & help us craft what it turns into.

-e

Todo List

Okay, a good way to start is to define a todo list of things I'd like to talk about:

- Attention.XML

- Calendaring Standards (iCalendar, hCalendar, XMLCAL, cxCal)

- Contact Standards (vCard, RDF vCard, hCard, cxCard)

- You Subscribe: RSS (now & later)

- RSS: Drinking Fountain, or Fire Hose???

Hello World!

There is nothing like a few years, heads down, to make one very quite on the web! It seems even more odd, when what you are working on is so much related to news/information publishing on the web!

By the time anyone on the planet reads this, hopefully it will be because they stumbled across You Subscribe: RSS, and my blog along the way.

If you have, somehow, found this another way, please check out You Subscribe: RSS

As you will probably read there, we are releasing a version 0.8 public preview. This reader, still far from complete, has enough in it to, hopefully be useful.

-eric