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This week we’ve released a new collaborative service for our small business clients. It’s design-less, database-less and requires no website building. All it takes is writing the correct URL in Internet Explorer and making sure to click that checkbox for Web Folders. Here’s the setup ‘how-to’ on Moonkah.Extranets: Web Folders for Storage, Sharing and Backups. This very simple (to install and use) service is based on the WebDAV protocol, an extension of the HTTP protocol, allowing you to access parts of a web server’s disk the way you access folders and files on your own machine.

According to Wikipedia:

WebDAV is an IETF working group. The abbreviation stands for Web-based Distributed Authoring and Versioning. The term also refers to the set of extensions to the HTTP protocol that the group defined which allows users to collaboratively edit and manage files on remote web servers.

The WebDAV protocol’s aim was to make the World Wide Web a readable and writable medium, in line with Tim Berners-Lee’s original vision. It provides functionality to create, change and move documents on a remote server (typically a web server or “web share”). This is useful, among other things, for authoring the documents which a web server serves, but can also be used for general web-based file storage that can be accessed from anywhere. Important features in WebDAV protocol include locking (overwrite prevention), properties (creation, removal, and querying of information about author, modified date, etc.), name space management (ability to copy and move Web pages within a server’s namespace) and collections (creation, removal, and listing of resources). Most modern operating systems provide built-in support for WebDAV. With the right client and a fast network, it can be almost as easy to use files on a WebDAV server as those stored in local directories.

Now let’s move to another way of sharing information, the RSS, or Really Simple Syndication, that made much of the “Web2.0″ blah lately for the buzzwords loving multitudes.

For me, Chris Pirillo used to be the prophet of the RSS some years ago, when no one was talking about it. Chris Pirillo built Lockergnome starting from a mailing list, the old classic manner. This grew to an information hub of proportions hard to harness via email alone. More so when servers had (and still having) to filter out gulf streams of junk. Pirillo’s advocating for RSS came from the need to establish an alternate -and cleaner- Autobahn for Lockergnome’s vast publishing network. Last year the RSS grew to be a largely adopted ‘old’ technology, regardless of the commercial monikers slapped on it.

And here comes 2007 when my Kontact Kmail app inbox begins receiving emails from Chris Pirillo’s Picks. Hmm, since long (two or three years?, can’t remember) I moved all my 11 Lockergnome lists subscriptions to the RSS feeding universe (deh web2.0, ya know…). I delve thru them in my Opera Feeds whenever I really get a second of silence from coding or helpdesking.

Now what’s going on, why Chris returns to retro emailing? Where’s the RSS fun?

No reason to worry, the RSS feeds are the future and — if you’ll do yourself a service and subscribe to Pirillo’s Picks by just sending an… email to picks@lockergnome.com — the present that brings people and businesses closer. No matter if we’re exchanging emails or blogging out through RSS feeds, at the end of the day we’re communicating, sharing and learning.

The best choice you can make today is to mail now at picks@lockergnome.com and sit watch what your inbox will bring tomorrow, and the day after tomorrow, and every day. My tip: informative, useful and entertaining lists of RSS feeds in your mailbox. Here’s Chris tip:

eGreetings!

Yes, this is a plain text message going out to all Lockergnome, Gnomedex, and Chris Pirillo Show subscribers (including those who have downloaded a Tutorial from us in the past). And yes, it’s really me - Chris Pirillo, in the digital flesh.

I’m starting a “Pirillo’s Picks” email newsletter for you - a daily list o’ links discovered in my digital travels. Think of it like a return to the ol’ Lockergnome days of 1996 - a lot less fluff and a lot more useful (or fun) information. I think it’ll be a great way to reconnect with everybody.

Wait no longer, click this: picks@lockergnome.com and enjoy!

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