Creating an Online RSS News Aggregator with ASP.NET

MSDN article that steps through the creation of an RSS aggregator using ASP.NET. Sounds interesting! But, will take some time -- So, posting it here so that I can look at it later!

Chiervo

Found an interesting link tonight! Japan Telecom is running a trial with its application using Microsofts RTC Client APIs (it appears). It requires IPv6, and is currently a trial through October -- only in Japan!

Link to Powerpoint Presentation

The plan laid out in this presentation is damn close to the ideas that I have for an integrated communication application. The only hindrance for this application is the acceptance of IPv6!

UDDI Web services spec released

A Microsoft- and IBM-backed group promoting the use of a spec for finding Web services across a network says members will start distributing test copies of the spec's latest version.

Interesting information about the future of Web Services (how they are registered/found/utilized/etc.)

 

Winfessor - SoapBox (A Universal Communications Platform

These guys provide a framework built with .NET. It provides secure IM (via SSL). They also provide components for interaction with Jabber, AOL, MSN, Yahoo, and ICQ! Server seems to be $699 and Commercial framework is $899.

Peer Enabler by Joltid

I was doing some research with PestPatrol. Trying to figure out what some of these files were on my system. So, I noticed this file called "P2P Networking.exe" installed by Kazaa. It turns out that this makes up Joltid's system of Peer Enabler. Kazaa apperantly licenses this technology from Joltid. Their website provides interesting integration examples (install downloads large binaries via the P2P network). This technology is a little different (than my ideas for file sharing)... But, it may be a nice addition to the suite. --something to keep in mind.

Web Services

Microsoft Web Services plan targets Java

A talk about Microsofts "Indigo" project -- that makes it easier to develop web services. It is supposed to release with Longhorn (2005). So, it's a ways off -- but, I would like to take an early look at it! (They are going to talk about it at the PDC in Los Angelos). Microsoft is trying to get people to use Microsoft software/tools to create web services instead of Java 2 Enterprise Edition (J2EE).

I think it might be worthwhile for us to look into J2EE. A lot of people are building production systems based on this technology. It's time to give it another look. We need to get past the mandates of the past (no COM, no Java, etc). People are using the technology sucessfully -- that should tell us something!

Apache group aims at J2EE applications

Very interesting... I just finished writing the entry above (about looking into J2EE). And... what do I find next -- but, the Apache group is embracing it as well!

I started looking more into the Peer-to-Peer & Real-Time Communication APIs from Microsoft. I think I may need to upgrade my machine XP Pro SP1 so that I can start playing with the SDKs.

The RTC client API seems to be what I am looking for. It's supports IM, Voice, and presence information. So far, they are only advertising support for 2003, XP, and 2000 though. I really need to read more information about this API. There is mention of registering with a SIP server or the MS RTC server. I have now heard about SIP in a couple different articles (latest being the MP3.com guy selling SIP phones).

Anyway, just a quick update about today... Will write more later if I get a chance (it's pretty busy around here!)

Instant Messaging

Jabber has designed an XML based IM protocol. This company has a fairly large rollout and high end customers. They are making money selling the "Corporate IM Solution".

The XMPP/Jabber protocol is being reviewing by the IETF (along with the SIP/SIMPLE protocol). Click here for a PDF that describes the differences.

Starting the blogger research

XML-RPC Service information - This site provides information about the XML-RPC interfaces exposed by service sites (Blogger.com, etc.)

The Blogger API is the original API for blogger.com. This API is currently used by Blogger.com over XMLRPC.

The Echo Project is Evan Williams' (the creater of the Blogger API) group to create a new blogger API. This API will not use XML-RPC, it will use SOAP.

The MetaWeblog API is being designed to add features to the original Blogger API (like Title/Links/etc.) - The spec was being built for Radio 8.

Lots of good SOAP resources - This is setup kinda like the XML-RPC site. It gives Specs, implementations, services, etc.

Lots of great information out there! The Blogger API looks fairly simple... Now to try to find a little free time and write a blog poster in .Net or something! ;) Oh well... back to work!

Posting my first blog entry! This should be very interesting. I have had a long day, I think this is going to be the most fun I've had at the office today. Too many meetings! At least they mostly went my way. ;) Anyway, I wanted to start this blog to have a place to share interesting news, ideas, links, etc. that may help with future product ideas, or whatever. This way, I will have a published place on the net to view them at anytime (maybe even from the PDA).

Interesting information from today:

1) Start working on new product idea -- have a document ready in a couple of days
2) Got the following news feeds today that were very interesting:

Microsoft adds P2P tools to XP

AOL give a shout-out to Communicator

3) After reading the Microsoft article... I found the some interesting collaborative information on the MSDN site:

Network Communication -- Look at the Peer-to-Peer & Real Time Communication sections

Unfortunately the APIs seem to be geared towards Windows XP only (except one version appeared to run on 2000 with a dll -- or something) Definately need to keep an eye on Microsoft and their collaboration server/client(s). They seem to be looking at the BIG picture.

-- That's all for today. It's past 6, time to go home!