#aggregation

It might appear like gloom and doom (actually, if it doesn't, you're not looking), but really it's a massive opportunity. Again, anyone who uses a news reader can't imagine having to live without one, yet I see the feed ecosystem slowly deteriorating with no replacement in sight. That's the opportunity, in my mind. It's not about simply mimicking Google Reader (which I would never do anyways, as I've never liked it), but about bootstrapping off the system we have today, in order to create a new type of news reader for tomorrow. The future of news readers, so to speak. ;-)

"Providing search services that span a number of disparate websites is a challenging problem that in the past has been left to the big-boys such as Google. However Amazon's OpenSearch RSS format is changing this reality and providing a means for effective multiple website search to be deployed at low cost by small development teams. "

"Because NetNewsWire lacks any mechanism for storing XFN information itself, I crafted an AppleScript-based solution that stores my relationship to each feed's author in a SQLite database."

"Think of an Attention Stream as a way of noticing all of the steps you take to gather and consume information."

"Endo has built in support for the hCalendar microformat for marking up events."

"Techniques for presenting and managing syndication XML (feeds) are disclosed." This is from Apple.

"but sometimes I like to see a combined view of just her activity in the past couple of days: all of the posts aggregated from her various feeds, combined into reverse chronological order."

"Aggregation is old news"

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