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RSS has died on the vine.
Before RSS most of us had a blogroll of sites we visited daily, weekly, etc. With RSS we could let those sites come to us. Now, more and more, those sites are more stagnant and the real action is in the micro-post spaces such as Twitter. Sure people like us, software developers and designers may still use RSS but for the masses, RSS has not caught on, nor will it ever.
As you may have noticed, things are quite around these parts recently but that isn’t due to a lack of things to say. We are busy at work getting Lean-to ready to come out of beta and have even started our second web application in between sweet* client gigs.
If you really want to hear what we are doing here are a couple ways to do that these days:
Follow Refactr on Twitter. Follow Lean-to on Twitter. Hell, you can even follow Ben, Jesse, and Scott from the Refactr team with varying degrees of satisfaction.
* And not just sweet because they are paying cash money, but also because we are really lucky to be able to work with some really cool companies doing really cool things that we hope we can tell everybody about soon!
This entry was posted by Ben Edwards on Thursday, April 30th, 2009 at 11:37 am and is filed under Agile Processes. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.
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Not Quite.. Tweet Feeds can sometimes be difficult to manage.. with an RSS organizing site like netvibes.com, RSS still has it’s obvious advantages for viewing feeds. But you have point with tweets affecting the initial power that RSS once had. ...on May 2nd, 2009 at 4:06 pm
I found one hundred articles in my Google Reader this morning – not a sign of a dying technology. Rss conveys information, links to articles, images (such as webcomic), videos and podcasts; it is an open format, without any vendor dependency on a particular web application like twitter. And, well, I came to this post thanks to a dzone rss feed… :) ...on May 3rd, 2009 at 4:37 am
What sensationalist bullpucky. Sure twitter serves it’s purpose and fills a very specific timing of news – but for the full, detailed facts – one still needs RSS and blogs.
I’m going to subscribe to this page’s RSS to await a response as I’m sure you’re not going to tweet it to me.
...on May 4th, 2009 at 8:48 amObviously RSS will remain a viable option for those of us who develop web apps, post to blogs, and otherwise get our livelihood via the internets. For those that do not, however, RSS never even really was used (or found). That is the point of my post. RSS is the Betamax to the VHS of these, admittedly different forms of, micro-blogging applications like Twitter. ...on May 5th, 2009 at 11:38 am