The Future of RSS…
January 21st, 2005Richard MacManus of Read/Write/Web writes:
“When RSS hits it big, it’ll be because ‘normal’ people start using it - your Mom and Dad, Frank from Marketing, Jessie from Payroll, Dave from the local dairy. They won’t be bloggers. They won’t be interested in writing or podcasting or anything like that. All they’ll want to do is track news and trends that are relevant to them. Tools will evolve to let people easily set-up personalized searches for information relevant to them and subscribe to the results - using, you guessed it, RSS!”
I nodded in agreement throughout reading the blog post. When I was first introduced to RSS a while back, I said out loud (thank goodness nobody was around), “This needs to be personalized.” I’d love to take a look at some random aggregators to see how much of it is customized. I’ve said the following to many conference attendees after explaining the virtues of RSS: I don’t care that I can get every article from Wired News. I only want to be notified in my aggregator when wired news has articles about librarians. Thanks to customization, now I can. I’d also like to take a look at the same aggregators in a year from now. Probably more customization than before. So, here I go again…
…the future of RSS is customization (link via Pro Blogger)