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NMG and RSS Labs are busily working away at enterprise integration using RSS.  Steve Ballmer of Microsoft, more than a year ago, speaking of RSS as a way for enterprise applications such as ERP modules to feed Outlook and other aggregator software, thus connecting silos of information and enabling individuals to track business processes in real time. 

Now the market is starting to warm up, as can be seen in this  blog entry by CIO Magazine’s Christopher Lindquist:

RSS: All the Integration You Need?

Tuesday, June 20, 2006

CIO has been doing a lot with RSS feeds recently. In addition to making a number of them available for readers
to view, we use them internally to drive content to various parts of
our site without having to go through a lot of tedious hand coding or
direct database queries. The feeds function as a quick integration
method that has given us a lot of flexibility. (You could argue that
it’s integration in a single direction, but sometimes that’s enough.)

I also had a chat with NewsGator’s
founder Greg Reinacker a few weeks ago, and he mentioned that his
company was seeing some interest in RSS as a more enterprise-friendly
integration tool as well, though companies still had concerns about how
to create secure feeds safe enough for data more valuable than my “your
order has been processed” message from Castingwords.

It got me
wondering about creative ways to use RSS as an integration tool. It’s
standards-based, well understood, and rapidly being integrated into
every piece of software imaginable.

Must watch.

Coutesy of MSNBC here.

Not
realizing his remarks were being picked up by a microphone, President
Bush bluntly expressed his frustration with Hezbollah, and his
preference for diet Coke during the G-8 summit in St. Petersburg. Read
a transcript of his comments:

Bush to Putin: I gotta leave by 2:15. They want me out of town so they can free up your security forces.

No, just going to make it up. I’m not going to talk too long like the rest of them. Some of these guys talk too long.

Gotta
go home. Got something to do tonight. How about you? Where are you
going home? This is your neighborhood doesn’t take you long to get
home.

You eight
hours? Me too. Russia’s a big country and you’re a big country. Takes
him eight hours to fly home. Not Coke, diet Coke. Russia’s big and so
is China.

Yo, Blair. What are you doing? Are you leaving?

Blair: No, not yet. On this trade thing…

Bush:
Yeah, I told that to (inaudible). If you want me to. I just want some
movement. Yesterday I didn’t see much movement. The desire to move.

Blair: It may be that it’s impossible.

Bush: I’ll be glad to say. Who’s introducing me?

Blair: Angela

Bush: Well tell her to call on it. Well, tell her to put me on the spot.

Thanks for the sweater; it was awfully thoughtful of you. I know you picked it out yourself.

Blair: Oh, absolutely!

What about Kofi Annan?  I don’t like the sequence of it. His attitude is basically cease-fire and everything else happens.

I think the thing that is really difficult is you can’t stop this unless you get this international presence agreed.

Bush: She’s going. I think Condi’s going to go pretty soon.

Blair: Well that’s all that matters. If you see, it will take some time to get out of there. But at least it gives people…

Bush: It’s a process I agree. I told her your offer too.

Blair:
Well it’s only…or if she’s gonna or if she needs the ground prepared as
it were. See if she goes out, she’s got to succeed as it were, where as
I can just go out and talk.

Bush: See the irony is what they need to do is get Syria to get Hezbollah to stop doing this s— and it’s over.

Blair:
Because I think this is all part of the same thing. What does he think?
He thinks if Lebanon turns out fine, if he gets a solution in Israel
and Palestine, Iraq goes in the right way, he’s done it. That’s what
this whole things about. It’s the same with Iran.

Bush:
I felt like telling Kofi to get on the phone with Assad and make
something happen. We’re not blaming Israel and we’re not blaming the
Lebanese government.