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12 Jan 2006
MicroContent Casting
I have been looking at the webcast of Steve Jobs' keynote. And I was especially interested what he was up to around iLife. I'll create another post on the clients itself.
The most interesting thing for me was the photocasting functionality. This allows users to publish their photo's as RSS feeds. I assume that each photo ends up as an enclosure.
We seem to get more usage of the enclosures with video's, sound (podcassts) and now photocasting. And there was something called appcasting. Clearly the spectrum is enlarging and thus time for generalising.
I'll call this phenomenon MicroContent Casting. Single MicroContent Items, each one embedded in a single container (file), is published on the Internet. Viewers/readers/subscribers/customers can subscribe to a RSS-feed with these MicroContent Items embedded as enclosures. The current trend is helped by the fact that these Items (photo, video, audio) exists already as a single file, which makes it easier to create these enclosures.
But why not do this for other MicroContent Types as well. Think of recipes, puzzles, reviews, events and even bookmarks (webnotes) published in this way. By the way I hesitate in including lists as well. But this is only possible when these MicroContent Items do exist as separate files. And for many MicroContent Types this is possible (think recipeML of Xbel).
And finally the various MicroContent clients help users to manage, publish and share their digital life.
By the way there is some discussion on the "standard RSS" that Apple is using.