Motility (Pun Intended): August 2003

Friday, August 29, 2003

RSS Readers (RSS Info) is a listing of RSS readers

Thursday, August 28, 2003

RSS.NET

A .NET library for RSS

Making An RSS Feed

This is a simple, step-by-step walkthrough of how to create an RSS feed. It says here that according to Syndic8, RSS 0.91 is the most popular.

RSS Notification Registration Service Specs - or so I think

This describes how RSS notifications are sent/how aggregators register for notifications.

I am slightly confused, but here are my thoughts:

This is telling the aggregator to send an XML-RPC message to radio.xmlstoragesystem.com on port 80, with path /RPC2 to the procedure named xmlStorageSystem.rssPleaseNotify to request notification.
-The aggregator is the process that collects updates from RSS feeds

A workstation calls the cloud to register. The procedure takes five parameters: the name of the procedure that the cloud should call to notify the workstation of changes, the TCP port the workstation is listening on, the path to its responder, a string indicating which protocol to use (xml-rpc or soap, case-sensitive), and a list of urls of RSS files to be watched. The cloud can determine the IP address of the caller from the request.
-This seems the opposite of the last para. I guess an aggregator would identify its port, IP, path and protocol info to the cloud (mentioned in the earlier para) to get notifications.

When a subscribed-to channel changes, the cloud calls back to the procedure named in the registration call with one parameter, the url of the channel that changed. At that point the workstation could read the channel, or notify other workstations that the channel has changed, clear a cache, send an email or do nothing.

-Somehow this makes me think that a workstation is an intermeiary between the channel and the registrants that sends out notifications?!?!?!

Now I am truly confused.

Wednesday, August 27, 2003

blogdex

This acts as a conduit to access the hotest topics being discussed on blogs. I guess it employs techniques similar to Googlejuice that Google uses to order search results. I guess this assumption is correct, I noticed an old WIRED article on blogdex which seems to validate my assumption.

Tuesday, August 26, 2003

moblogging.org - Mobile blogging resources

THE ULTIMATE RESOURCE FOR MOBILE BLOGGING RELATED MATERIAL. This is definitely my MOST FAVOURITE site for this topic !!! The author does an amazing job of keeping up with the market.

Wired News: Now Bloggers Can Hit the Road

A WIRED article on mobile blogging.

Weblogs.Com: Recently Changed Weblogs

Userland's listing of active blogs.

Shirky: Weblogs and the Mass Amateurization of Publishing

Clay Shirky gives a classic case for the popularity of blogs - something I strongly support.

Radio UserLand : What is Radio UserLand?

The easy-to-use desktop blogging tool that makes blogging easy to do through its simple interface. Seems to be rather popular.

picturephoning.com

This is a nice upto date blog on photo blogging.

Mobitopia - Saturday, May 10, 2003

If you go near the bottom half of this page, you will see images and a description of BlogPlanet's mobile blogging J2ME midlet.

MMSstore.com - For all your MMS (Multimedia Messaging) Storage

A site that allows you to store your photos taken from your camera phone. Primitive in outlook.

Mfop2

A tool made by some large hearted software guy to enable mobile blogging via email/SMS

mapAmobile

Not quite related to mobile blogging, but rather location detection. This company seems to have an innovative mechanism to identify the location of mobile phones on a GSM network without something like GPS.

KABLOG

One of the pioneering mobile blogging applications. It has support for Movable Type, blogger, B2, Blog-City, UserLand (Radio), Roller, SnipSnap, and other blog servers that support either the simple blogger xmlrpc interface or the extended metaWeblog interface. I've tried installing version 1.3 on my T720 and had a tough time with the interface (figuring out the right keys). I haven't gotten it to work properly yet though.

Version 2.X seems to support photo capture but apparently works only on the Nokia. My test on the T720 ended up in failure.

Instant Messaging Planet: Public IM

This is an interesting article Nitya sent me about archiving IM message transactions on blogs. There is also a reference to BloggerBot that allows you to make blog entries through your AOL messenger. The advantage is, its free and the source is also available. Mindsay also does something similar to this.

EachDay.net. Watch Life Unfold

These guys do something very similar to the e-biography concept I've been trying to promote where your mobile photo-blog could be marketed as your life in pictures and other media made available for others as events occur in your life. They could also do something similar to Yahoo photos or Ophoto to allow you to purchase prints of your photos online.

Download Pocket Blog

A mobile blogging tool from RadioLand for your PocketPC PDA. I will be installing this on my iPaq some time soon and will be posting my comments on this.

David Davies' Weblog : Mobile blogging how-to guide

Another helpful techie explaining how to moblog using email from your mobile phone.

BlogWorld Star Tree by Ramana Rao

One of the most useful and best places for a beginner or researcher in the world of blogging to visit. Ramana Rao, the content management guru from Xerox (and now founder and CEO of Inxight Corp.) has made this Hypertree of blogs from BlogWorld. Its after seeing this hypertree that I realized how useful hypertrees actually are.

BlogPlanet

Another site that allows you to photo blog.

Location based blogging ?

Check out Blogmapper.com. One of the most innovative blogging sites for Context/Location-sensitive mobile networks researchers. These guys have a mechanism by which you can link blog entries to locations - GPS locations that can be mapped to locations on a map. Their demo shows a blog made of graffiti found across San Fransisco. This idea could be used by carriers for competitions to popularize mobile blogging. The greatest barrier for this becoming popular is the complexity involved in setting up such a blog. Make this simpler to use and maybe it might be the coolest thing on the wireless carrier block.

blogcount - How many blogs and bloggers? How big the blogosphere?

Interested in figuring out how mnay blogs are out there ? According to Blogcount, its between 2.4-2.9 million blogs worldwide. Some industry estimates estimate the number of US-based blogs to be around 1 million. These numbers are fast increasing ! - as someone put it - its 'white hot' - and the right time to enter the market - before it gets 'red hot'.

BBC NEWS | Technology | Blogging goes mobile

BBC article on mobile blogging. They also have an interesting quote by the CEO of NewBay - an Irish Software firm looking into mobile blogging.

RSS 2.0

What is RSS ? Its some form of Web content syndication - Really Simple Syndication to be precise - what does that mean, dont ask me. I'm still trying to figure it out. At the moment it seems to be a simple XML-based mechanism to syndicate blog entries and web content to interested clients/client applications. There seem to be varying standards and I remember reading somewhere that this is a big issue. See my entry on Feedster.com for an RSS search engine.

Weblog APIs

Looking for an API to code your blogging client against ? Look at the APIS listed at this link:
1. Blogger API - From Blogger.com. They don't seem to support it now and are working with a bunch of other blog content providers on a standard, but still the definitive one out there
2. MetaWeblog API: Supposed to be an improvement over the Blogger API.

Wednesday, August 20, 2003

Moblogs By TextAmerica ::.
A US-based moblogging site. They have an interesting blog on the NY blackout: http://blackout.textamerica.com/

I believe this might be backed by Sprint.

receiver
This seems to be an interesting magazine published by Vodafone.

Feedster is an RSS search engine. I'm sure with Google's acquisition of Pyro Lab's Blogger.com, Google should come out with something to compete against this.

Joi Ito's Web: responding to Russell's thoughts on moblogging
Here are some more comments on a moblogging scenario. This has more relation to the 'grafitti' effort - or information spaces.

a klog apart
Phil Wolfe has some real interesting thoughts on mobile blogging - from business applications, to ideas on what are the potential advantages of meta-data that can be added to blogs entered using mobile blogging devices.

International Moblogging Conference
This site has some interesting topics on mobile Blogging.

Hi, this is the generic, stereotypical, first post to my blog. I'll be making a lot of changes soon, but for now, this is it ! For those of you reading this entry, please do let me know why you are here ?!? I really wish to know what drives people to other people's blogs ? Maybe by the time you are reading this, there is sufficient material of interest to you in this blog ? - or maybe its my charm (as you can see, I think big) :-)

Penning off for now.......

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