The real estate search engine Propsmart, created by the same team that developed BookCrossing, has launched an RSS 2.0 namespace for representing real estate properties in a feed.
Propsmart allows data feed partners to provide bulk property data by sending us a data file or providing a web data feed. ...
The feed should be provided as a URL, which we will crawl on a regular basis. The accepted format of the data feed is RSS 2.0.
They've been responsive to feedback. When I contacted the company about a couple of minor nits that prevented the feeds from being valid last week, they were quick to correct the problems.
James Holderness and Paul Querna have joined the RSS Advisory Board.
Holderness is a software developer working on the Snarfer RSS reader for Windows whose past projects include the WebFerret search utility and Delrina CyberJack Internet application suite.
He's also an active participant on the board's RSS-Public mailing list who contributed to the RSS Profile, a set of best practice recommendations for RSS in ongoing development.
Querna is a software engineer at Ask working on Bloglines, one of the most popular web-based RSS readers.
He's also a member of the project management committee for the Apache web server and formerly a developer of voice over IP communications systems at BitStruct.
Welcome to the board!
The proposal to revise the RSS specification has passed 7-0 with RSS Advisory Board members Matthew Bookspan, Rogers Cadenhead, Randy Charles Morin, Greg Smith, Loïc Le Meur, Jenny Levine and Eric Lunt voting in favor.
The specification has been edited to reflect http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification as the document's permanent URL and RSS-Public as the mailing list where users should post RSS-related questions and comments. No other changes were made.
All edits to the specification are logged. This revision of the document has the version number 2.0.8.
The following RSS Advisory Board proposal has been made by Rogers Cadenhead and seconded by Matthew Bookspan and Greg Smith.
Under the advisory board charter, the board has seven days to vote on it. Interested parties can comment on the proposal on the mailing list RSS-Public.
Proposal
The current RSS specification contains two minor issues I'd like to resolve.
1. The docs element refers to an outdated URL for the specification instead of the current URL.
For as long as the board operates, http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification will be the permanent URL of the current version of the spec. The domain name is the property of the board, so it can move to a new host as needed in the future.
John Palfrey at Harvard told me that the URL
http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss is going to become the permanent URL of the original Harvard spec published in 2003 (not any of the board's subsequent derivations). You can find a copy of the original Harvard spec here.
2. The spec encourages people with questions about RSS to post them on the RSS2-Support mail list hosted by Sjoerd Visscher.
This list is no longer active, receiving more spam than RSS-related posts. Our own RSS-Public mailing list is a better place to seek help.
I propose the following:
- Revise the specification to reflect
http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification as the permanent URL of the document and RSS-Public as the mailing list where users can pose questions about the format.
- Give this version of the specification document the revision number "RSS 2.0.8".
Jason Douglas, the project lead on the RSS platform at
Yahoo and the coauthor of an early attempt to syndicate web content, has joined the RSS Advisory Board.
While at Yahoo, Douglas led the integration of RSS into My Yahoo.
Douglas also was the vice president of product development for
Grand Central, a web services provider for business-to-business communication.
At Pointcast in 1997, Douglas worked with Castedo Ellerman of Microsoft on Channel Definition Format (CDF), an early attempt at XML syndication employed by Internet Explorer 4's Active Desktop feature.
Welcome, Jason!
