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Microsoft announces SSE

Fred Oliveira on November 21, 2005

SSE I admit it, this is a day I thought would long to arrive - the day when Microsoft would surprise me positively again (sans-Xbox 360, which is impressive on its own). They have just announced SSE (Simple Sharing Extensions), which is basically an implementation of two way item-sharing (think bidirectional RSS). The goals of SSE, according to the specification page, are:

  • To use RSS as the basis for item sharing – that is, the bi-directional, asynchronous replication of new and changed items amongst two or more cross-subscribed feeds.
  • To use OPML as the basis for outline sharing – that is, the bi-directional, asynchronous replication of outlines, such as RSS aggregators subscription lists

Dave Winer is excited about the announcement, and Mike points out (quite spot-on too) that this can give birth to a series of new applications and companies based on this kind of syndication / subscription behaviors.

If you’re a hands-on RSS / XML developer, you should have a look at the SSE specification that Microsoft has made available - hold on to your seats - under a Creative Commons Share-Alike license. Two good moves, hands down.


Comments on this post

Phil Wilson

Please have some balance. http://www.intertwingly.net/blog/2005/11/21/This-is-Sharing

Alex Barnett blog

Microsoft proposal: Simple Sharing Extensions for RSS and OPML

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Dave Winer:

 ”Microsoft has unveiled a new proposal called…

SeanMcb.com » Microsoft: Positive Signs?

[...] Earlier this month, I thought that Microsoft might be starting to show an about face in their online strategy. First, great hoopla was raised in the blogosphere over the release of Simple Sharing Extensions. Frederico Oliveira over at WeBreakStuff certainly had positive things to say about it (although he also had positive things to say about the XBOX 360…) SSE allows bidirectional sharing of items and outlines using RSS and OPML (from what I understand), and it’s release by Microsoft under a Creative Commons license. Sounds good right? Could Ray Ozzie and Microsoft be turning their online strategy back towards the narrow path? [...]

Olive

C’est hervé qui va être content !

robr

2-way RSS , integrated by M$ into the browser where the browser may become an RSS Publisher. Browser may say “here is my OPML, here is my “Attention Residue”, here are my “lens” with which i observe the GreyWeb.

One more tidbit, I’m about to buy a new Car. Wouldn’t some of the Advertisors like to enqueue some digitial media that will show up on my reader “radar” before i make that purchase decision?

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