RSS Cloud
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= distributed set of updating and microblogging services that could replace corporate platforms like Twitter
URL = http://rsscloud.org/
Description
"When you send out an update, it'll go to a set of servers in the Web cloud. The servers will keep track of your subscribers and alert them that you've updated. The key difference between this system and Twitter is decentralization—not everyone's updates are kept by the same company or on the same servers. The system would work much like RSS does now: You can subscribe to lots of different blogs or podcasts, but those feeds are actually hosted all over the Web; some of them may go offline from time to time, but the whole thing won't collapse all at once.
- Several different groups are working on technologies that complement Winer's vision [1].
- In an insightful blog post, Anil Dash recently described these technologies as creating what he calls the "Pushbutton Web."