We saw this morning an announcement that Microsoft IE7 upgrade will support RSS. (IE7 Screenshots) This support in IE7 does come up short of what we had hoped for, but is a first step to making the subscription process to RSS feeds easier. The process will be as simple as pressing an orange RSS button in the browser and adding that feed from the website displayed in the browser. IE7 will automatically sense when a RSS feed exists on a page. Yes, it is simpler to add this feed to a subscription list. They will be offering the ability to search in the RSS feed as well. This is assuming that RSS feeds have that much in them. It is a big question as to how much to include in your feed. It is easier to download a small feed into your aggregator, but this will not provide enough to have a search process chew on and become useful to search. The other big impact is with podcasting as how many shows should you have in a podcast feed. It is a bandwidth issue that must be thought about. I admit that many of the podcast catching applications are getting smarter to allow the user to limit how many shows a feed is allowed to deliver. But, most people just accept the default settings. It is funny that the user wants control and limiting controls on the delivery of content, but most content providers just flood users with content. The discussion started to shift to a concept of Attention.xml which is being championed by Steve Gilmor of the Gilmor Gang podcast. Steve really pushed on Yahoo and Microsoft to open up the feed access data in the browser to enable outside third party bots and filters to run against what people are paying attention to and reading online. Don’t forget video and audio listening in this mix.

Many of the early adopters are getting flooded with information that they must filter through to get to the data they and we really want. This is really a time saver for the heavily connected blogger types. We are really all flooded with information right now and we need have companies like Microsoft, Google, Yahoo and even Apple to get together and solve this growing information overload issue will catch up to everyone who is active on the Internet. We are just seeing the very beginning of this in the larger population. The technologists at Gnomedex are the leading beacon for what is coming to the larger population over the next few years. The technology of managing interactive communities is being discussed at a level that extends years into the future and is clearly years ahead of even a company like Microsoft. To follow the conversations here at Gnomedex visit Technorati and search for Gnomedex.

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I will be attempting to live stream the first day of Gnomedex 5.0 in Seattle. The stream will start at 8:30AM PST.

Look for some important announcements from Microsoft in this Friday morning session. We just might get a BIG Surprise about Podcasting from Microsoft. You will want to listen up.

Friday, June 24th 2005 - Bell Harbor Conference Center

8:30am - 9:00am Opening Ceremonies – Chris Pirillo
9:00am - 10:15am Keynote - Dave Winer
10:30am - 11:45am Keystone - Dean Hachamovitch
12:00pm - 1:30pm Lunch, Sponsored by Ignition Partners / The Gillmor Gang
1:30pm - 2:15pm Steve Gillmor, Dave Sifry, Scott Gatz on Tomorrow’s Syndication
2:30pm - 3:00pm Kathy Gill, Paul Vogelzang on the Tomorrow’s Education
3:15pm - 4:00pm David Geller, John Battelle, Dan Gillmor on Today’s Citizen Media
4:15pm - 5:00pm Matt Westervelt, Asa Dotzler, Scott Collins, Matt Mullenweg on Tomorrow’s Open Source

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