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RSS, Atom feeds may carry security risk
Reading blogs via popular RSS or Atom feeds may expose computer users to hacker attacks, a security expert warns. Read more »
Google tests personalised news feed service
Google launched a test version of a new service on Friday that gathers reports from syndicated news sites and blogs across the Web. Read more »
Windows Live program manager quits 'paralysed' division
The departure of a Windows Live program manager has highlighted concern within Microsoft about the strategic direction of the company. Read more »
Microsoft and Mozilla make deal on RSS
After starting a small row in cyberspace by trying to come up with its own name for RSS feeds, Microsoft this week let it be known that it now accepts that RSS is here to stay, and one division within the company has even accomplished that most unusual of feats: an accommodation with an open source group. Read more »
Microsoft tries to calm nerves over RSS
After starting a small row in cyberspace, a Microsoft executive insists that the company loves RSS - even if it won't call it RSS Read more »
Google News gets RSS and Atom feeds
Google has introduced RSS and Atom feeds for its popular Google News aggregation service. Read more »
Google mulls RSS support
Google is considering renewing support for the popular RSS Web publishing format in some of its services, marking the latest twist in a burgeoning standards war over technology that could change how people read the news. Read more »
Google jumps on RSS ads
Google has begun selling advertisements for Web publishers' syndicated news feeds, in an attempt to lead a developing and untested market. Read more »
Yahoo opens up search, invites developers to party
Yahoo announced on Thursday that it is opening up its search platform to third-party developers. The company also says it will be supporting the semantic Web. Read more »
IBM eyes programming for the masses
IBM is working on a project, called QEDwiki, that takes a stab at a long-held industry promise: end-user programming. Read more »
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Blog format truce proposed
In an attempt to lasso support from Google, a key proponent of the syndication format RSS has proposed that it merge with its challenger under the auspices of an Internet standards body. Read more »
Yahoo! Pipes brings mashups to the masses
The Yahoo! Pipes project facilitates mashup creation via an easy-to-use interface. Read more »
What's wrong with RSS is also what's right with it
The popular Web syndication's brand of flexibility promises to make life difficult for all those attempting to bring order to the natural chaos that defines the Internet. Read more »
Location-based publishing and services
Geocoded content is transforming our Web. By adding geographical coordinates (latitude and longitude) to our media, we can help others find it through location-based search engines and web maps. Read more »
RIFE with possibilities
Developing a web-based application is never a small undertaking. At the very best it's a lot of work just to develop the code that does whatever it is your application is supposed to do but before you even get to the point of writing your application's code, you have to decide what you going to write it in. Read more »
Why developers should check out ColdFusion 8
The recent release is by far the most compelling version since they moved to the Java platform -- and possibly even the most compelling version ever. Read more »
Get blogging with Pivot
A good place to start when setting up your own blog server is with a file-based blogging server. In this article we are going to look at how to get the Pivot blog server up and running. Read more »
XML: Too much of a good thing?
Explosion of special-interest XML dialects could mean the standard is a success or could be the start of a new headache. Read more »
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In this week's roundup we see that continuous whining can get results, Linux users get 64-bit Flash and Moonlight previews, the latest in the Yahoo/Microsoft relationship and Senator Conroy ducks and weave in Senate Question Time. Read more »
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Sun eye Web developers with Netbeans 6.5Despite the recent employment axe hitting Sun the company has pushed out a new release of its Netbeans open source IDE with an eye to appeal more to Web developers. Read more »
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BarCamp buzz: Let the hacking continueAttending last weekend's BarCamp in Sydney, it was hard to escape the conclusion that a certain "dot-com bust" flavour had seeped into the kool aid previously being drunk by Australia's web 2.0 and early stage start-up sector. Read more »
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Interplanetary Internet a possibility
2008/11/21 10:32:55
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Conroy ducks, Ballmer evades and Android Fails -- Club Builder
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Yang's resignation: The talk of Silicon Valley
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Conroy ducks, Ballmer evades and Android Fails -- Club Builder
Club Builder this week takes a long look at Senator Conroy's recent attempt to explain his Great Firewall of Australia, we chase Steve Ballmer over Sydney, and find Google's biggest bug of the year.

