Syndication to become part of Windows
Microsoft has announced that it is going to make the ability to subscribe to blog-syndication feeds an integral part of Windows in its next incarnation, Longhorn.
Almost all blogs have feeds. Currently you need to download a dedicated ‘newsreader’ to subscribe to them. All that technology will be incorporated into Internet Explorer 7.
This will mean that you can add feeds as you cruise the web. Then blogs will come pouring into your email or your browser or a folder on your desktop all day long. I think some people might think it’s a bit too much. God helps us when the spam merchants start adding feeds to your browser without you knowing.
A blog run by a group of Microsoft Geeks have posted an hour long video interview with the head of the Microsoft Longhorn project about this very subject.
A note on the video interview itself. It’s completely unedited and you have to listen to loads of irrelevant chit-chat. It shows three things:
- Microsoft is letting ordinary employees put out information over blogs. These days we meet not Gates or the PR man, but the ordinary Microsoft geek in full living colour.
- It’s amazing that you can post (and syndicate) videos on blogs.
- It’s amazing how boring it can be if it’s not done properly - you need some editing skills.
