Programming on the web

Dave Winer was right about river reading: Scoble likes river style now.

I’m still with bloglines.

Stowe Boyd: “allows me to see what the most important people in my life are reading, and what they think of it”.

Great points! Wish to have more details.

Great article about bookmarking: Bookmarking and social sharing trends

More and more people view RSS as an API.  For example: Web API Design - Keep Some of it Simple, Stupid

And it makes sense! If we view web as a platform and RSS as a form of API, then we’ll see the bright future of RSS processing.

It’s hard to convince that one case reflects the trend! 

Pluck RSS Reader Shuts Down: Consumer RSS Readers a Dead Market Now  

Dear Steve, Richard, Robert, Chris, and Keso,

As we know, we still don’t have a processing tool for RSS, similar to Netscape Browser for HTML.  I believe one of the reasons is tool developers don’t not have very clear idea about what people really want.  To my impression, you have stated some of your desired features in your blogs. For example, Chris has following post: Standing out in a commodity crowd  

This post serves as an invitation to gather requirements for RSS processing tools.  It’s time for us to think it again! 

Thanks!

See Has the RSS happened yet?

It’s very hard for people to agree on something.  RSS happens to be one of these things.  More and more tools and services will come out to leverage this universally agreed format.  And people will use it more and more.  At this point, people are only use RSS at the high level. But later, they will digg into one level lower: to figure out RSS structure. Anyway, it’s not difficult to understand the concept of channel and item.  It’s so natural to people watching TV.

Stephen Baker created a list for Web 3.0

I added following item as #4 in the comments:

4. In Web 3.0, the web will be programmable.  Programmable for everybody! Here programmable does not mean mash-up, does not mean personalization through configuration. Hope to be able to show it by the end of the year.

http://www.google.com/coop/cse/

Will it have an API?

Closing a Long Loop, or RSS-Enabling Wina on the Web tells a nice story about using RSS to boost traffic.