Comments on: Being Efficient With RSS http://www.zatznotfunny.com/2009-02/being-efficient-with-rss/ All your digital media goodness. Sun, 21 Mar 2010 16:57:34 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Imran Ali http://www.zatznotfunny.com/2009-02/being-efficient-with-rss/comment-page-1/#comment-86474 Imran Ali Fri, 20 Feb 2009 15:23:00 +0000 http://www.zatznotfunny.com/?p=7990#comment-86474 There're some great tools for feed manipulation and algebra; your use of Pipes is pretty typical of most users...I read somewhere that Pipes is the Visual Basic of Web 2.0! However, Pipes and the methods outlined by RWW are all kinda 'pro' tools. Feeds and RSS have been the one significant 2.0 pattern that has passed right regular consumers...how many times do people glaze over when we start using funky metaphors to help them understand RSS! I think there' a great opportunity to provide aggregation and filtering tools that simply put feeds under the hood, allowing amateur users a simple mechanism for harnessing the power of aggregated media. There’re some great tools for feed manipulation and algebra; your use of Pipes is pretty typical of most users…I read somewhere that Pipes is the Visual Basic of Web 2.0!

However, Pipes and the methods outlined by RWW are all kinda ‘pro’ tools. Feeds and RSS have been the one significant 2.0 pattern that has passed right regular consumers…how many times do people glaze over when we start using funky metaphors to help them understand RSS!

I think there’ a great opportunity to provide aggregation and filtering tools that simply put feeds under the hood, allowing amateur users a simple mechanism for harnessing the power of aggregated media.

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