Abbreviations galore Nov 22 2005

The already cramped technology abbreviations arena gained a new member today in the form of SSE, or Simple Sharing Extensions. This is a namespace addition to RSS and OPML. It transforms RSS into a bi-directional form of communication, making it more of an updatable, editable resource, rather than a read-only feed of information. A lot of the buzz today on the ‘net has been surrounding this announcement, and it certainly seems quite interesting. At first glance, SSE gave me a couple of ideas for some cool apps that’d take advantage of the technology, so I think I’ll sit down and take a really good look at the spec and FAQ when I get chance, see what I can cook up… Nice to see though that the innovation freight train isn’t done just yet for 2005, it is cool to see the web become such a huge breeding ground for ideas and concepts at long last, with big companies like Microsoft taking up the charge and driving ideas forward.