Comments on: RSS has died on the vine. http://refactr.com/blog/2009/04/rss-has-died-on-the-vine/ informs on and evangelizes best practices of using <a href="http://refactr.com/the-agile-manifesto/">agile methods</a> when designing and developing what are currently being called “Web 2.0” products and applications. Tue, 08 Dec 2009 08:02:29 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Ben Edwards http://refactr.com/blog/2009/04/rss-has-died-on-the-vine/comment-page-1/#comment-19278 Ben Edwards Tue, 05 May 2009 16:38:56 +0000 http://refactr.com/blog/?p=202#comment-19278 Obviously 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. Obviously 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.

]]> By: Mauvis http://refactr.com/blog/2009/04/rss-has-died-on-the-vine/comment-page-1/#comment-19270 Mauvis Mon, 04 May 2009 13:48:59 +0000 http://refactr.com/blog/?p=202#comment-19270 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. 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.

]]> By: Giorgio Sironi http://refactr.com/blog/2009/04/rss-has-died-on-the-vine/comment-page-1/#comment-19252 Giorgio Sironi Sun, 03 May 2009 09:37:37 +0000 http://refactr.com/blog/?p=202#comment-19252 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... :) 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… :)

]]> By: _mark http://refactr.com/blog/2009/04/rss-has-died-on-the-vine/comment-page-1/#comment-19240 _mark Sat, 02 May 2009 21:06:35 +0000 http://refactr.com/blog/?p=202#comment-19240 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. 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.

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