RSS in the Clouds
September 13th, 2009
I just read Matt’s posting on RSS in the Clouds and thought… hey… I haven’t heard something like this in a long time. Let me check this out…
Looks like Dave Winer came up with a notification mechanism for RSS aggregators. He called it rssCloud. Very catchy. It somehow looks similar to PubSubHubbub. rssCloud only allows you to get a callback at the IP address you made the initial request from. No way to direct it anywhere else. Useless for RSS clients.
Just to remind everyone we’re still far away from addressing two of my pet peeves with RSS:
- RSS items are still sent multiple times to the same client, even if the client already got a copy of those items
- Clients still lose information when they’re offline and the feed updates faster than the number of RSS items the server supplies in the feed
Looks like we haven’t really made much progress in the last 8 years. I really like my NetNewsWire RSS reader, but I’m afraid if Google Reader provides more complete news aggregation and even gets news items faster I’m probably going to migrate.