Wednesday, November 30, 2005

behold the power of the internet where scammers live, their victims blog about it and digg their story, and lynchmobs form that barrage the vendor with prank calls, emails, faxes, ddos attacks and poor online ratings. All without anyone verifying whether there's any truth to the original story of course... UPDATE: Ed Lopez, owner of PriceRitePhoto sent an apology letter to Thomas Hawk. The next day,... (90 words, 1 Comments)

Sunday, November 13, 2005

eBay supports RSS - kind of... Arturo Zacarias (eBay) writes: RSS [...] is a technology that makes it easy to see updated headlines from websites or pages that you like. This year we have been working to incorporate this technology for members to utilize on eBay. [...] eBay Stores sellers are now able to set up a "feed" that will send out a regularly updated summary... (316 words, 3 Comments)

Friday, November 4, 2005

Feeds, well-formed XML and Vista The Microsoft RSS Blog just announced that Vista will only accept RSS feeds that are well-formed XML. I agree with Nick, who commented "This is the right thing to do, and I'm glad you're doing it - thanks". I'd like to add some emphasis to that statement though: "This is the right thing to do, and I'm glad you're doing... (225 words, 23 Comments)