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Tim Bray managed the Oxford English Dictionary project at the University of Waterloo in 1986-89, co-founded Open Text Corporation (Nasdaq:OTEX) in 1989, launched one of the first public web search engines in 1995, co-invented XML 1.0 and co-edited "Namespaces in XML" in 1996-1999, founded Antarctica Systems in 1999, and served as a Tim Berners-Lee appointee on the W3C Technical Architecture Group in 2002-2004. Currently, he serves as Director of Web Technologies at Sun Microsystems, publishes a popular weblog, and co-chairs the IETF AtomPub Working Group. |
Presenting: Syndication as a case study
Right now, the world's most successful XML vocabulary is "RSS", which is used for news syndication. This talk examines the history and usage of RSS and looks at the IETF "Atom" project which is designed to be its future. More important, it considers the lessons that come out of this un-predicted success story, for Java-folk in particular and technologists in general.
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