Blogging Roller

Mihai Parparita has published an interesting list of the top 50 extension namespaces used in RSS and Atom feeds. I'm pleasantly surprised to see XHTML in the #2 spot. The top 5 are Dublin Core, XHTML, Blogger.com Atom API extensions, Blogger.com Atom draft extensions and the Content Module (via Dave Winer).

The Southeast VC blog has a good summary of local tech news sites, recruiters, networking opportunities and actual companies that are currently hiring here in the Raleigh-Durham Research Triangle Park (RTP) area. He didn't mention Microsoft, which has around 100 employees (most working on Team System) -- last I heard they're hiring.

I won't have time to check out IE7 beta 3 and the final Feeds API until this weekend, but I'm happy to see that Microsoft addressed my number one complaint, which was:

Support feed and item ids. The item.id property does not reflect the RSS <guid> or Atom <id> of the item/entry in the original feed. Plus, it's an integer -- not the right type for a URN. If you want to get the actual feed or item/entry id you have to parse the XML. Make it easy to get the real id if there is one.

And in Walter vonKoch's list, you can see that they fixed the problem:

5. Added FeedItem.Guid to reflect xml element <atom:id> or <guid>

7.3 Renamed Feed.Id to Feed.LocalId

7.4 Renamed FeedItem.Id to FeedItem.LocalId

In doing that they broke some code in my book (I'll fix the examples download this weekend), but I can't really complain about that.

Plus, check out Walter on MSDN TV talking about the RSS in IE7.

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