Opinion and commentary about Mac and iOS applications, publishing and content consumption behavior, web and cloud architectures
January 7, 2011

If RSS Would Die

Great article on the implications of RSS dying:

We lose a common standard by which content can be aggregated. A developer should not have to be fluent in Twitter, Facebook and a million different private APIs just to aggregate content from different websites you read

Summarized:

  • we would lose all sense of privacy
  • we would lose any control on what, when, and how we consume