1. Not sure if there are transcripts or not, but looking for them now...

frank shaw
waggener edstrom

Posted at 4:47AM on Dec 19th 2005 by frank shaw

2. Ballmer's comments seem awfully benign and quite consistent with public perceptions of the company strategy before he said them. Where's the controversy here?

I suspect that part of the problem hinges on precisely how you define RSS... are you talking about blogs as well, or simply web feeds, a specific web feed format, and simply one narrow potentiality of web feeds at that? When you say RSS, are you excluding Atom and any follow-on formats to RSS, or are you using RSS as an umbrella term for everything to do with blogging, syndication, and aggregation of web feeds?

Here's one of Jack's Laws: Sloppy use of terminology is *not* an aid to effective communication.

-- Jack Krupansky

Posted at 4:47AM on Dec 19th 2005 by Jack Krupansky

3. If the quotes are not verbatim, as you wrote, perhaps you shouldn't present them in a Q & A format, which by design implies that they are the exact words (usually from a tape recording).

Posted at 4:47AM on Dec 19th 2005 by Dfactor

4. I am hoping that I get the right ones from MS.. meanwhile.. (since, the drinks were after the event) I am pretty sure I am very close on recording what was asked and said and am not mis-representing either party.

Posted at 4:47AM on Dec 19th 2005 by Amit

5. I have been traveling, evangelizing the use of RSS in the enterprise no less, so I am late in commenting on this entry. I find it interesting that Ballmer both gets it, it’s simple and that’s why people use it, and then disses it for the same reason. RSS is breathing life into the use of XML. RSS takes the presentation layer of an application architecture discussion largely out of the discussion; it’s a reader (thin, thick, rich, whatever). It also defines the “transform to” schema… it’s fixed, it’s decided, it’s primitive. As such RSS is very well suited to solving the 80% case of information *and* data dissemination within an enterprise at 20% of the cost of other integration, broadcast, mediums.

RSS is breathing new life into the web and internet technologies as well. As we all know RSS puts the control back into the hands of the recipient (subscriber) rather than the publisher. RSS allows information you need and want to find you --- goodbye browser favorites.

It’s my belief that most problems that need solving in a business don’t need “powerful web services” and the hoards of programmers required to create custom applications. They need fast, elegant, cost effective ($ & time), “80% solutions” so they don’t die at inception or on the vine as implementation times drag out. RSS allows for this.

Now RSS does have its’ problems in that it’s a request/reply polling mechanism which will wreak havoc within an enterprise over time (remember PointCast?). This will be solved by use of servers, true push technologies, etc. over time.

Perhaps Ballmer and some within Microsoft are threatened by the simplicity of the “client” side of this equation. Like the browser and html before it RSS makes you wonder why you need need complicated virus infested client software……

Footnote: I have met many strong supporters of RSS within Microsoft such as Kyle VonHaden at MSN, Scoble, etc. Microsoft is definitely investing in simplicity and RSS in parallel with classic enterprise software complexity. I put my money on the simplicity and KISS camp within Microsoft.

Posted at 4:47AM on Dec 19th 2005 by Ron Rasmussen

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Posted at 4:47AM on Dec 19th 2005 by cnol

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Posted at 4:47AM on Dec 19th 2005 by autoloans

8. Samsung officially announced five new super-slim handsets today. From left-to-right we see the 0.59-inch SGH-Z510 which Samsung claims is the world’s slimmest W-CDMA (3G) handset, the SGH-Z540 3G clamshell which (gasp) we haven’t actually seen before, the love-it-or-hate-it vintage-TI-calculator styled SGH-P300, and finally two tri-band GSM/GPRS/EDGE SGH-D800 and D820 sliders. So what's the deal above? The http://sonygirls.com got to love this. Have you guys noticed all these gadgets are becoming more and more popular among the girls? All five models feature MP3/AAC playback, Bluetooth, MPEG-4 video recording, and 1.3 megapixel shooter. By the way so how's the upcoming http://playstationgirl.com heard that it's going to be release on year 2007. The D800, Z510 and Z540 also feature WMA playback with 80MB, 138MB, and 150MB embedded storage respectively while the D820 is quad-band GSM/GPRS/EDGE, packs in 73MB, an MicroSD slot, and even, er, TV-out if our Babelrean is working correctly. Oddly, the P300 is rumored to have 90MB of flash storage yet there is no mention of any storage in the press release. Oh my, such a long wait, think we should just simply stick to http://xboxgirl.com for now. All models should be available in Europe later this year. Pics of the P300 after the break with a slightly different key layout than we’ve seen previously.

Posted at 4:47AM on Dec 19th 2005 by Anonymous

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check this link to submit your newsfeeds: http://www.plazoo.com/en/addrss.asp

greetz...

sven

Posted at 4:47AM on Dec 19th 2005 by abitur