![]() ![]() CMT patients suffer from progressive muscle atrophy of legs and arms, causing walking, running, and balance problems as well as abnormal functioning of hands and feet. de Silva also reveals his decades-long battle with Charcot-Marie-Tooth (CMT), a little-known, little-understood disease. The memoir discusses how his experience in business as a national financial services executive, with a seat at the table, shaped him into the leader he became and how those experiences can give individuals the opportunity to test the essential decisions they make. "It's always been that way … It may be what this Mastodon thing is all about.Taking Stock engagingly toggles back and forth between de Silva’s highly successful business career and his quiet battle with CMTĪTLANTA, GA, USA, March 23, 2023/ / - Peter de Silva, a nationally recognized and highly accomplished financial industry executive whose career included roles such as former retail president for TD Ameritrade, president of Scottrade Financial Services and UMB Financial Corporation as well as a senior leader at Fidelity Investments, today publishes Taking Stock. "They give you a system that has, you know, training wheels – all the hard stuff is done for you and you trade-off your freedom," he said. ![]() The only thing that makes him optimistic, he said, is that power users tend to find a way out. "It's always going to be very hard to get distributed communities to actually happen." "My feeling is that we still haven't yet solved the problem of how to commoditize Twitter and take it out of the realm of, you know, walled gardens and silos and stuff. Twitter has absolutely drop-dead simple subscriptions … Why did it never get easy to subscribe to things in RSS? It was because people wouldn't work with each other. "It suffers from the same problem that RSS suffered. "Mastodon is not for everyone," he said, noting that it isn't sufficiently easy to use. Winer said Mastodon does a very nice job with RSS, though he's not optimistic about its potential for changing the paradigm that leads to centralized services. And with Twitter under new, contentious management, many users of the bird site have established accounts on the federated Mastodon network, which happens to support RSS feeds. Google, of all companies, recently added RSS support to Chrome on Android. And lately there are signs of renewed interest. Yet RSS is still widely used for podcasts and among a technically stubborn segment of internet users. ![]() We understand that and since we're a responsible company, we're gonna help clean it up.' Nothing like that happened." Winer added: "It still would have been nice if Google had acted like a good corporate citizen and said, 'Look, we just left a big oil spill here. But in fact, what they're doing is they're going to shrink the web down to the part of the web that they can monetize." They make it sound like they're doing good things. They're doing it slowly and they put a lot of hype onto it. "And they're doing the same thing with the web today. "Google could have done a much nicer job of taking care of RSS, but they didn't do that," he said. However, Winer's appreciation has limits. "The truth is that the RSS market was terribly disorganized at the time, and Google did kind of a good thing by organizing it." "Nobody saw a downside when Google Reader came in," he said. Winer gives Google some credit for what the company accomplished with Reader. Waterfox: A Firefox fork that could teach Mozilla a lesson.Vivaldi email client released 7 years after first announcement.Thunderbird 102 gets a major facelift, Matrix chat support.The GNOME Project is closing all its mailing lists.And in 2021, Google removed RSS feeds from Google Groups. Apple stopped providing RSS for Apple News in 2019. Mozilla removed RSS support from Firefox in 2018. Atom debuted in 2005, a year after the launch of Facebook.īetween the lack of a unified specification and efforts by Facebook, Google, and others to bring people to a single platform rather than send them away, RSS usage has waned. The spec continued to evolve with RSS 1.0, then later again into Atom, a similar XML-based spec. By July, Netscape had rolled out RSS 0.91 and My.UserLand.Com supported it. By April, My.UserLand.Com adopted the tech, and the 2.0b1 format the following month. In March 1999, Netscape launched MyNetscape.Com, using an XML syndication format called RSS 0.9. Other websites adopted what was called the format. In December 1997, Winer started publishing an XML version of his blog, Scripting News. ![]() Individuals or services can then subscribe to any of those feeds to keep informed about newly published content. It's an XML-based format that lets websites syndicate their content by publishing RSS feeds. RSS stands for RDF Site Summary, or Really Simple Syndication, or nothing at all, depending upon whom you ask. ![]()
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