Microsoft aims to mesh disparate calendars, contacts
eWeek | at | by Mike
Microsoft is working on a new RSS extension that Ray Ozzie is referring to as the "RSS of synchronization"a way to synchronize the mishmash of competing calendars and contact list software and services to set up a "mesh" model that lets friends, family and co-workers bidirectionally update each others' calendars and schedules.
Ozzie, Microsoft's chief technology officer and the creator of Lotus Notes, wrote in a blog entry that the new extension is now being called SSE.
SSE is out in draft spec and has been numbered 0.9 to reflect Microsoft's confidence in its usability, given the amount of prototyping the company has done thus far on it, plus the fact that RSS guru Dave Winer has had input into the spec, Ozzie wrote.