I rarely let someone else speak for me, but I have been working on-site doing technology consulting for a Fortune 50 financial services firm in Baltimore and we’re exploring Enterprise 2.0, Attention Data, RSS Enablement, and RSS Aggregation, just to throw out a bunch of buzzwords. Well, to get an amazing primer on how too much can be good enough, if you run the right filters and track the right stuff, please read An Excess of RSS by Mike Walsh from the The Fourth Estate:
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2 Comments » Posted on August 10th, 2007 by Abraham Harrison
RSS is merely a delivery vehicle. RSS doesn’t need to deliver news or even timely content. RSS is merely an alternative to using a browser, if that will help you visualize it. In order for RSS to work most effectively, there needs to be an engine behind it, supporting the markup of the XML file, and doing all of the enclosing.
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1 Comment » Posted on August 7th, 2007 by Abraham Harrison
Here’s a quick primer for a piece of the Enterprise 2.0 puzzle that had eluded me: most stuff in an Enterprise isn’t aggregation-ready. Just about everything - notes, docs, spreadsheets, IMs, email, PDFs, databases, files, and archives - don’t have RSS feeds. So, you’re generally shit-out-of-luck if you want turn your Enterprise 1.0 to Enterprise 2.0 and deploy cool tool like Particls, NewsGator, or Attensa. What do you need? Well, you need RSS Enablement. Network Computing has a great description of what RSS Enablement is all about.
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2 Comments » Posted on August 4th, 2007 by Abraham Harrison
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