Links for 25-07-08
"OpenTaste is an open standard for making your online persona portable." - an open format for taste (and not just attention) data.
For presence and updates in social software we might have to leave standard REST web services behind and find a way to use message passing. Here's one way to do it using XMPP, the technology behind Jabber and Google Talk.
A blog from NPR (National Public Radio in the US) which focuses on the NPR Web site and all the tools and services they're developing for it. Including a to access their audio, text and images.
A Windows Media Centre add-in for listening to ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ radio streams.
A forthcoming football MMOG (massively multiplayer online game) that is supported by podcasts from Radio Five Live.
Try sketching your own interface to the news.
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Comment number 1.
At 29th Jul 2008, seel20 wrote:Cool links. Any idea if you'll look more into OpenTaste in the future?
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At 29th Jul 2008, tristanf wrote:We're certainly interested.
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At 31st Jul 2008, DamianMehers wrote:FYI BeebMC has been updated to support Listen Again:
/Damian (BeebMC author)
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At 1st Aug 2008, tristanf wrote:Thanks Damian.
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