Marc Barrot: groupware

Wireless In Austin

Fri, 07 Mar 2003 15:36:03 GMT

I'm blogging from the Starbucks in Lakeway, TX, thanks to TMobile's HotSpot service. The link speed is impressive. A few days ago, I connected from Terminal D in the Dallas/Ft Worth airport, then from the car rental terminal at DFW. Links were perfect every time. I could almost believe all the hype about pervasive, ubiquitous Internet accessibility :-) [read more]

Aggregating The Italian Way

Fri, 07 Mar 2003 15:12:19 GMT

Paolo Valdemarin: Everything started with the idea of an aggregator that would categorize and give visibility to weblogs posts... [read more]

Outlined RSS Comes to the Browser

Tue, 04 Mar 2003 21:14:45 GMT

[img] I have finally released activeRenderer vs 1.4. The new version packs 3 new features:

activeRenderer now renders RSS format files (news feeds) in active outlined form,
with activeRenderer installed in Radio, you can now visualize both OPML and RSS local or remote files in the new outline browser,
activeRenderer's rendering engine is now accessible as a web service, via both a local URL and a public one at services.activeRenderer.com/activerenderer/render.

Here are some more screenshots of the outline browser: win/mozilla - win/msie - mac/msie - mac/safari). [read more]

Coming Soon To A Weblog Near You

Thu, 27 Feb 2003 19:10:44 GMT

[img] Here is the second preview of RSS news feeds rendered as outlines with Radio Userland and the ever closer to release 1.4 version of activeRenderer. I think I have achieved all of my rendering goals. Outlining provides a quick, synthetic way of browsing through RSS feeds. If you have any suggestions, do send them my way by clicking the feedback link on this page. [read more]

RSS Newsfeed Rendering Preview

Thu, 20 Feb 2003 23:06:16 GMT

Here is a taste of the new activeRenderer 1.4 with RSS rendering: I've rendered Dave Winer's, Jon Udell's and my own RSS feeds as a proof of concept. [read more]

Outlining Radio's News Aggregator

Thu, 20 Feb 2003 17:14:39 GMT

Mikel Maron: "activeRenderer View for News Aggregation. This is very cool. I've been using the aggregator in an outline, for a couple months now, and I wouldn't go back. Do check out the screenshot and I hope this update is enjoyed." Wow, cool indeed :-). With Mikel's myRadio tool, you can use Radio's aggregator, and get a better organized view of your feeds. If you're like John Robb, browsing through 116 subscribed feeds, the new version of myRadio sounds like a winning proposition. [read more]

Hierarchical Thoughts

Wed, 19 Feb 2003 19:25:19 GMT

Russel Beattie: "I think in outlines. I live in outlines actually".

Wiki Wiki

Tue, 18 Feb 2003 19:06:44 GMT

Bill Seitz: "Hmm, what if you built a wiki inside Radio (or UserlandManila or UserlandFrontier)? The WikiName approach is not too far from the Userland glossary... I wonder (a) how much new work you'd have to do to get basic wiki functionality, and (b) in that approach how much cool Userland stuff (e.g. upstreaming, RSS) you'd still get for free..." [read more]

Outlining Email

Mon, 23 Dec 2002 06:36:23 GMT

John Robb: This makes me wish my e-mail system was a self-organizing outliner ... Multimedia conversation anyone ? Who knows what 2003 will bring...

OPML Directories

Tue, 17 Dec 2002 22:04:07 GMT

Mikel has directed my attention to Dave's revival of OPML files as directory structures in Sunday's edition of Scripting News. As Dave demonstrates, the 'inclusion' feature of OPML (the link and url node attributes) allow for a really cool decentralized directory structure, with different persons managing different levels of what appears to be a unique outline. This has a lot of potential. If you have activeRenderer installed with your copy of Radio, you can experience the same level of integration within your web browser as you can using Radio's outliner. Take a look at my OPML directories demo. [read more]

Welcome In Vienna*

Tue, 17 Dec 2002 16:55:58 GMT

Thomas Burg is organizing BlogTalk, a Euro Weblog Conference, in Vienna, Austria this spring. [read more]

activeFix for liveTopics

Thu, 14 Nov 2002 22:40:45 GMT

[img] Or is it liveFix for activeTopics ? :-) Matt and I quickly found out that the new 1.3 version of activeRenderer, with its new 'page' wedges for HTML link attributes to outline nodes, was thoroughly breaking liveTopics' indexes. The updated 1.3.1 version of activeRenderer fixes a couple of minor bugs, and handles HTML link attributes in a more liveTopics friendly way. [read more]

activeRenderer Version 1.3 Released

Tue, 12 Nov 2002 15:26:24 GMT

[img] The new version of activeRenderer delivers 2 new features:

Image file urls, in gif, jpg or png format, can now be included in the outline as link attributes to the outline's nodes. Check the new Endless Web Page, and click the [img] 'camera' icons for a demonstration.
activeBookmarks can now use Yahoo bookmarks instead of local browser bookmarks, a feature built upon the code contributed by Mikel Maron, current developer of myRadio.

There are other minor improvements and bug corrections in the 1.3 release, further details may be found in activeRenderer's release notes. [read more]

Watch The Edge Bleed

Tue, 05 Nov 2002 22:15:20 GMT

Andre Radke: I finally managed to produce a working [XSLT processor] for Frontier and Radio based on the Ginger Alliance's Sablotron. Andre has just started to fulfill one of my pet dreams. As he warns, this release is for thrill seekers only. Raphael Szwarc: Thanks to Paul Scott Murphy, ZOË now has a XML-RPC interface. Zoe listens for xml-rpc requests on port 10123. To find out which Zoe methods you may call, you need to look into Paul's Python demo code, or into Zoe's fascinating Java sources. [read more]

activeRenderer 1.2 Released

Sat, 12 Oct 2002 01:25:38 GMT

I've released the latest version of activeRenderer tonight. Version 1.2 corrects a couple of minor bugs in the activeBookmarks feature (as reported by Gilles and Donovan), adds an optional 'uniqId' parameter to activeRenderer, to enable Mikel to call the rendering code several times within the same page in myRadio. However, the main feature of version 1.2 is browser based OPML transclusion, as demonstrated in the Endless Web Page: any OPML outline linked to the currently rendered outline is *inserted* within the page when you click on the link, the same way it's done in Radio UserLand's outliner. [read more]

Transclusion Breakthrough: The Endless Web Page

Thu, 10 Oct 2002 19:38:56 GMT

The links you can see on the Endless Web Page demo, with [img] icons, are the result of a long research. Clicking the [img] icon, or the link's text, will cause the linked outline to be inserted directly in the current page, as a child of the node that carried the link. [img] While the linked outline is rendered, the [img] icon is replaced by a small rotating globe. Once the linked content is inserted, the [img] reverses to a 'regular' outline wedge [img] , with the standard collapse/expand functions attached. This is the in-browser version of what Dave Winer and UserLand created for Radio's outliner. This is instant rendering, happening on the fly as you browse through the current page. It is totally recursive: try clicking on the 'endless web page' node that appears under my name in the demo page. [read more]

Le Weblog Strikes Again

Tue, 08 Oct 2002 17:54:34 GMT

Paolo Valdemarin: It's official: Radio UserLand is available in French, with hosting provided under the leweblog.com domain. The big translation work has been made by JY, and as with the Italian version, the translation is distributed as an updatable tool, meaning that you will be able to use new Radio features in your own language very shortly after UserLand releases them.

Tune your Radio to Italian

Fri, 04 Oct 2002 21:48:43 GMT

Paolo Valdemarin: Starting today, we are distributing the Italian version of Radio. It took longer than expected to localize (have you ever noticed how much text there is in the help pages of Radio???), but now it's done.

Playing With liveTopics - Part II

Fri, 04 Oct 2002 19:44:20 GMT

I still don't know how many episodes this mini series will consist of, but today I'm focusing on the liveTopicsSeeAlso macro, which displays a list of related topics with each post. [read more]

I Dream of NetNewsWire Lite

Fri, 04 Oct 2002 18:04:48 GMT

Jon Udell reviews NetNewWire Lite, the RSS reader of choice for all MacOS X users. [read more]

First Of Month

Thu, 03 Oct 2002 01:50:24 GMT

Jake Savin reports on the first-of-month Radio bug fix. [via Scripting News]

Playing With liveTopics - Part I - Addendum

Thu, 03 Oct 2002 00:20:09 GMT

In a comment to my previous tutorial on liveTopics features, Blaine Wishart asks pointedly how I can explain the difference between the left sidebar on "slam"'s home page and the same sidebar on the archive page for Sept. 30th (the day of its publication). [read more]

Radio Preferences

Wed, 02 Oct 2002 23:55:24 GMT

An interesting wish from Al Macintyre in Don Strickland's RadioFAQ: [read more]

What Is Abstracter ?

Tue, 01 Oct 2002 22:19:57 GMT

Abstracter is a contextual menu plug-in that summarizes text to the clipboard or a text file. It is multi-lingual too. Yes, including Japanese. Abstracter is Ian Shortreed's latest product at Mercury Software and it rocks mighty hard! [read more]

Playing With liveTopics - Part I

Mon, 30 Sep 2002 23:41:49 GMT

Now that Matt has finally released a first version of liveTopics to the weblogging public, and is feverishly adding user requested features, the least I can do is demonstrate the use of some of liveTopics niftiest macros. Today, I'll focus on liveTopicsHotButtons, which displays a list of topics used in your weblog, most frequent first. [read more]

What's the difference between topics and categories?

Mon, 30 Sep 2002 00:43:22 GMT

[img] Matt Mower: With more people interested in liveTopics the question is coming up: "What is the difference between topics and categories?" [in Curiouser and curiouser!]

OmniOutliner Not Quite Yet With OPML

Fri, 27 Sep 2002 00:21:01 GMT

Dave Winer: Brian, the support manager from Omni says: "Just wanted to let you know that the version of Outliner that supports OPML hasn't officially been released yet. I screwed up late one sleep-deprived evening and it was posted for a day or so, but this was unintentional. If you could do us a favor and spread the word, we'd appreciate it, since it's causing a bit of confusion. It's coming soon, though." - Well, I just received a similar note, so I'm spreading the word. I can't wait for the official beta release though...

DiveIntoRss?

Thu, 26 Sep 2002 16:18:36 GMT

Sam Ruby: Mark Pilgrim has published a RSS 2.0 template for Movable Type. More interestingly (at least to me), he's documenting his design decisions as he goes. I'm going to try to keep pace with my rss2 feed.

Who Watches the Watchers?

Thu, 26 Sep 2002 15:52:26 GMT

They don't have it available online, so go - run - buy this week's New Yorker, and take a look at The Back Page cartoon by Tom Tomorrow.

OmniOutliner Update

Wed, 25 Sep 2002 18:22:46 GMT

Dave Winer: Ken Dow reports that the current version of OmniOutliner can read and write OPML [in Scripting News]. Ok I'm dropping everything and checking this out.

JIRA does RSS, so cool!

Wed, 25 Sep 2002 16:04:43 GMT

Matt Mower: I need a tabbed interface that lets me organize feeds the way I want. I need keyword prioritzation, I need the ability to delete all items from a specific feed at [read more]

Epistula Syndication Format

Wed, 25 Sep 2002 15:49:39 GMT
Nicholas Avenell: ... today I invented the Epistula Syndication Format. ESF. It isn't XML. It isn't RDF. It's just data [via Sam Ruby].