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Microsoft Seeks Patent on RSS Platform

Don McArthur passes along some huge news in the syndication world — Microsoft filed for a patent today on the Windows RSS Platform, a common feed database and API that can be used by other applications to read, write and store RSS and Atom…

I skimmed the patent earlier today. Not sure what to say yet. I’ll give the patent a good read and comment further. I know there’ll be a lot of anti-patent and anti-M$FT commentary on this one.

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Clarifying Microsoft’s RSS-related Patents

Before I prattle on about this, I’d like to make it clear that this is my personal blog.  I speak for myself here, not the company I work for, so please don’t mistake my personal ramblings for company policy.  If I had that kind of clout, every…

Nick Brabury suggests the Microsoft RSS-related patents are invalid.

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Top 10 Entries for 2006
Top 10 blog entries for 2006 based on hits, comments and links.

1. MySpace RSS Support
2. IE7 Beta 3 kills FTP in Windows Explorer
3. RSS Reader Survery
4. RSS Gets an Enema
5. Del.icio.us reorganized!!! (it’s about time)
6. Tagometer
7. Moving and Retiring RSS Feeds
8. Wikipedia Sucks!!!
9. State of Blogosphere Search, Part II
10. TrackBack as an Internet Standard

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Winer Responds to Microsoft’s Response
Dave Winer responds at length to Sean Lyndersay of Microsoft’s lengthy response about their RSS patents. Dave suggests that Microsoft’s RSS patent are based on free community IP and calls the patents an obstacle to growth in the market. That’s a fair criticism, unlike most all of the others that have been floating around. He’s not saying these patents are invalid. On the other hand, it’s not like Dave didn’t profit from RSS. This leaves me with an old question, “Is Dave the only person allowed to profit from RSS?”

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Notes on Microsoft’s RSS Patents

Some random thoughts on Microsoft’s two RSS patents.

• There are two patents Content syndication platform and Finding and consuming web subscriptions in a web browser.
• Patent numbers 20060288329 and 20060288011.
• Filed June 21, 2005.
• The first patent describes a feed cache that exposes an API for use by 3rd party applications.
• Feedster, a feed cache with an exposed API for 3rd party applications, was created in 2003.  Feedster also provided search facilities, which is the part we all remember, but you could also use the Feedster API to retrieve caches of an RSS feed.
• A major difference between Feedster and Microsoft’s RSS platform is that Feedster was web-based and the RSS platform is a native service. 
• FeedCache.net, another web-based feedcache was created in 2005 or 2006. The service doesn’t seem to be supported well. I inquired about using it via email and directly with Tucows, but they never once responded to my inquiries, so I can’t be entirely sure that it even worked.
• Claim 3 talks about converting the RSS from different formats to a common format. This was also done by Feedster.
• FeedBurner is also a feed cache, but it provides publisher services, rather than consumer services. FeedBurner is also capable of translating RSS formats, but from any-to-any.
• It would seem there’s a lot of prior art and that most, if not all, of the claims in the first patent are not inventions.
• The 2nd patent describes the subscription process within the Web browser.
• USM (documented by me) and Feed URI scheme (documented by an employee of Microsoft) allowed this.
• Joe Gregorio first described automatic subscription in the Web browser back in 2003.
• I don’t have a reference for when feed URI scheme came about, but I believe it started as a feature in the Safari Web browser. Please post a reference link in the comments.
• NewsGator and Bloglines have long provided APIs for adding, deleting and managing subscriptions.
• It would seem there’s a lot of prior art and that most, if not all, of the claims in the second patent are not inventions.
• MHO is that the patents are invalid and if challenged would be voided.

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Friday, December 29, 2006

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Web 2.0 Predictions for 2007

Yes, I know, up to one million, maybe more, or you have been waiting for just this post. Well here it is, Randy Charles Morin’s Web 2.0 predictions for 2007. Let’s just start with an acknowledgement that my 2006 predictions were near perfect, even if Joey is poking fun at one of them.

1. At least two of core Web 2.0 stars of NewsGator, SixApart, Technorati and FeedBurner will sell-out. I doubt Google would buy NewsGator, SixApart or Technorati, as they are competitive, not complimentary. Do the math. I’m guessing FeedBurner to either Yahoo! or Google. Congrats to Dick and Eric in advance!
2. Somebody will release a new version of RSS or a competing syndication format. I’m stealing this one from last year. Whenever in doubt, somebody will simply re-create RSS.
3. Following up on my predictions from last year, the Web 2.0 bubble is gonna blow in 2007. The fallout will not mirror its dot-Bomb forefather. It will be mild. But Web 2.0 companies that don’t get bought or reach profitability are going to find it harder to raise additional capital. Some will fail. Some will sell-out below their paid-in capital.
4. Microsoft’s RSS Platform will become the new meat of the RSS universe. Many new RSS readers will emerge based on the platform and some will become Web 2.0 stars before Santa’s next visit. Many of these new RSS readers will not be blog readers, but rather will be components of much broader applications.
5. Windows Vista will spur a buying cycle in the PC industries. Expect Intel, Dell, HP and AMD to have great years. Microsoft will again break their all-time earnings, but this will be the last Windows-based PC buying cycle. The buying cycle will last two year and Vista will reach critical mass in 2008.
6. RSS enclosures will enjoy new life as podcatchers move to the mainstream and to video. Download Rocketboom or your favorite YouTube series to your video capable handheld device.
7. What about MySpace? The social network that is so ugly that every teenager in America has to have a really horrible looking profile where they can reveal private details to pedofiles? Expect more of the same. Continued, but slowing growth. A lot of partnerships, especially with other News Corp properties. The prediction is that nothing major is happening to the behemoth of social software.
8. LinkedIn, on the other hand, is the rock of social software. Slow and steady growth (at least compared to other social websites) has been its trademark. This is gonna change. Sequoia Capital, the money, isn’t in the business of running profitable companies. Expect them to flip LinkedIn for good coin, like they flipped YouTube, PayPal and others before.
9. On the back of MySpace, widgets will enjoy accelerated growth. If you can’t beat MySpace, then you might as well get your content on as many MySpace profiles as possible.
10. Dave Winer will not retire his blog, as promised. He can’t. It would be like me or you giving up breathing.

More predictions…

• John Battelle
• Alex Barnett
• Blogging Stocks
• Ted Neward
• Ben Barren
• Ari Paparo

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Saturday, December 23, 2006

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U.S. Department of Homeland Security RSS feeds

United States Department of Defense has a number of RSS feeds

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RSS AdWords

Steve of FeedBurner fame found that somebody was advertising the latest version of the RSS spec. Very cool! I didn’t ask who, but I have my suspicions. Whomever it is, here’s a big thanks!

http://www.burningdoor.com/lineofsite/archives/2006/12/rss_20_specific.html

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Anyone wishing to blog about more than one area of interest will appreciate Radio’s Category Feature. Every copy of Radio will support an unlimited number of categories and each category is, in essence, a separate weblog with its own URL address and its own independent RSS feed. Radio also permits multiple authors to contribute to a community weblog via the Multi-Author Weblog Tool. Want to update your weblog via email? You can do that too.
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RSS Usage Survey Results

Ilya Grigorik has some interesting analysis and nice graphs of Microsoft’s recent RSS usage survery.

http://research.microsoft.com/acid/rss/default.aspx

Thanks Oleg for the link! [play tag with me candidate]

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