The Feed Icon

This was designed by someone over at the Mozilla foundation. It's used to signify to a user, using  Firefox, that the site they are viewing has a feed availalable.

Currently there is no set standard as various sites like CNN, BBC, etc use a "RSS" or "XML" button. Both of these acronyms make no sense to the avg. user, in fact some tests have show that the "RSS" button can be mistaken for "R55" if it's small enough. Talk about confusing the user!

Matt Brett, a designer, has created a site called feed icons

***********************Update on 1/27/06*******************
Let's see, I had to stop typing to take care of my daughter and then work got in the way.

I'm back now to finish the thought (can't wait to have "draft" posts in Journals)

So Microsoft was toying with the idea of their own "feed" icon and finally came to the conclusion that Mozilla had it right.

I think  you'll start to see this icon on more and more websites once IE7 comes out.

What do you think of this icon? Does it make sense to you? Do you know what feeds are? Tell me what you think.

AOL- Mountain View

Here's a picture of the main entrance to the AOL Mountain View building. There's a really cool reflection of the clouds in the glass.

                  
Greg from the AIM team came out for a visit last week to talk about the api's that the AIM is publishing.

Busy Busy

First off, happy new year to everyone. It's been a while since I posted. What can I say but I have been very busy.  For one, we were working on getting release 3 out the door in early January. Secondly, I was assigned to my 3rd project to manage which makes for a lot of work on my plate.


This 3rd project fits in nicely with my 2nd project, which is the Feeds and Favorites Platform. I've blogged about some of the products associated with that project and more will be posted on the product blog.