Posts Tagged with ‘xml’

If you are anything like me, RSS feeds are a constant part of your daily life. I use them for a variety of things from finding news for work to tracking my own and others' writing online. I even have my daily agenda and television shows in RSS feeds to remind me of various tasks and alert me to new shows. RSS applications have been cropping up everywhere lately as more and more people are using them [...]

For a good period of time, there was noticeable discontent over the increasing use of the term ‘Web 2.0’ by bloggers, and, eventually, full-fledged journalists. To a sizable portion of Web users, the label had no real meaning whatsoever. They thought it was simply a name conjured for use as a marketing tool. A new spin devoid of meaning. It aggravated. It caused a ruckus on some occasions. And then, almost at once, everyone began to accept it en masse.
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The Black Hat USA 2007 conference took place in Las Vegas over the four days of July 28 through August 2. Lots of topics and issues were covered, and lots of holes were exploited (for demonstration purposes only, of course), between all the briefings and training sessions.
One item that received a fair amount of attention was AJAX, the magical asynchronous duo that is Java and XML, employed by a great number of developers today at small startups and Internet [...]

No, this isn’t the biggest news this week in the world of Web 2.0. Yes, there are considerably more momentous items to talk about. With that said, I want to just shelve all the “more important” stuff for a short while, because this bit is just the right mix of geek and cool that it warrants high prioritization on my list of things to mention.
So, what am I speaking of? Google’s debut of Reader for the Nintendo Wii, of course.
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Mashups. They’ve been around for years. Enterprising folks have done phenomenal things with the tools offered for the creation of unique applications by companies like Yahoo! and Google for little or no cost. Google has done it with its Maps API; Yahoo! has released numerous such items to its developer network. It even debuted Yahoo! Pipes, a mashup creation tool, giving individuals or groups with less-than-expert knowledge of computer languages like JavaScript, XML, and others the power to mold their own [...]

In the third quarter of 2007, a project five years in the making is set to launch. Xcerion, a small Swedish company, has plans to release a free XML-based OS (XIOS) that will run inside a browser. XIOS has an extremely small footprint, with an initial 2 MB download to install. Running in a sandbox, it should be virtually immune to most of the malware created for current operating systems. Such a system would eliminate current OS hardware and software [...]

If you keep up with the news on Profy, you’re almost certainly using Firefox as your main browser of choice. That’s why the revision of a product I’m about to mention won’t sit well with you.
It’s called Xopus (Pronounced: X-Opus), and it’s only compatible with IE. Ouch. I know it’s hard to hear something like that, particularly when we’ve all but passed the stage of wholeheartedly accepting strangled, proprietary systems. I mean, ActiveX? Who needs that? Talk about malware. And [...]