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I am currently a software engineer at Google, where as a member of the Android platform team I build frameworks and user interfaces.

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RSS Infinity

August 18th, 2005

Like my officemate said, “Well, I guess if it’s on Slashdot, that means it’s news, right?”

Okay, enough already. Somebody Slashdotted himself today when he put up a one-man website proposing a RSS 3.0 specification completely of his own volition. Maybe it’s an April Fools Joke and his PC calendar is way wrong. Maybe it is for a thesis paper on the Slashdot effect. […]

Sadly, the “ooh, RSS is now a buzzword” press is now reporting RSS3 as the Next Big Thing. Not the Atom 1.0 proposed standard, mind you, but so-called RSS3.

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