www.satn.org

Project MAC, where we met S at MIT A the Software Arts building where we worked together T and the attic N where VisiCalc was written
Other writings on our personal sites:

Bob's
David's
Dans's
RSS Feeds:

SATN

Bob

Dan
Comments from Frankston, Reed, and Friends

Thursday, May 22, 2003

DanB at 6:40 PM [url]:

SMBmeta takes another step with new sample applications

For those of you following the SMBmeta Initiative, here's news: I've released some sample applications to take advantage of the data. They include a simple small business directory on www.overall.com. The directory is driven by data in smbmeta.xml files registered on www.smbmeta.org. The Perl code to implement the entire system (creating SMBmeta data files, registering them, indexing them, reporting problem ones, etc.) is available in an open license form from SMBmeta.org.

With this release, along with a pretty complete SMBmeta file format specification that's been around for a while, it's time for owners of small business websites to start adding smbmeta.xml files. You can use the tools on the SMBmeta.org website to create and register them. Developers that would like to participate by creating either tools or services now have some working prototypes to start from (there is even a page on the SMBmeta.org website ready to point to their work).

Jamie Lewis of the Burton Group has written an essay discussing SMBmeta and "loosely coupled systems".

For more information, read the weblog entry on TrellixTech.com.



For more, see the Archive.

© Copyright 2002-2008 by Daniel Bricklin, Bob Frankston, and David P. Reed
All Rights Reserved.

Comments to: webmaster at satn.org, danb at satn.org, bobf at satn.org, or dpreed at satn.org.

The weblog part of this web site is authored with Blogger.