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Saturday, November 13, 2004

RSS and mobile phones

As pointed to by Tim Finin in our group:

"I saw this mentioned on Smart Mobs. RSS does sound
like a good option for mobile phones."

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Sony Ericsson position paper - Mobile Web Initiative Workshop
Peter Stark, Application Manager, Sony Ericsson
18-19 November, Barcelona

Sony Ericsson supports the creation of the W3C Mobile
Web Initiative and looks forward to Recommendations
covering rich Web-based multimedia applications for
mobile phones, and a permanent place for mobile phones
in the W3C.

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Mobile Web use cases #2: information updates

To further address the issue of how to get users
online, and their reluctance to browse the Web in the
traditional meaning, we look at another major trend.
Push services are on the rise on the Internet, based on
the de facto standard RSS. We believe that RSS has a
great potential in mobile phones, as a technology to
automatically provide updated content to users -
accessing the Web without browsing.

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I agree, we surely are seeing a move where better structured information on the web is leading to many new applications. RSS is one of the killer - no questions asked. Checkout RSS support in Mozilla for instance, I am a big fan and so are many of my colleagues.

The very next question: What is required from aggregators/middleware when most of the websites start publishing information using RSS. How do we most efficiently search such RSS feeds -- other than keyword only based searches.

The final question -- What is the best way to structure such information ? OWL is the beginning of a long process (as Knowledge Representation in Logic) which will give a new dimension to content management.

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