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The Importance of RSS

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the feeds-are-the-new-push dept.

unfoldedorigami writes "Kevin Hale of Particletree wrote an interesting essay about the importance of RSS and speculates that the success of social bookmarking sites like del.icio.us and Technorati has got Google worried about subscribe becoming the new search. Hale thinks this is the reason behind why they've become so interested in feed reading and the procurement of revenue from them."

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  1. Re:Web-based RSS Feed Reader by Tezkah · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I think what you're trying to say is that "RSS lets me type up my post on a subject before even loading up the page, and then I get first post."

  2. Misleading facts in the article by msblack · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    As of this writing, any filter relying on the SBL is now marking email with the url "paulgraham.com" as spam. Why? Because the guys at the SBL want to pressure Yahoo, where paulgraham.com is hosted, to delete the site of a company they believe is spamming.

    The SBL is used to blacklist SMTP gateways, not URL's appearing in the body of an e-mail message. The SpamAssassin process used SRBL to scan messages for "spammy" URLs. It has nothing to do with SBL blacklisting of gateways.

    When criticizing a tool as unreliable, verify your facts.

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