Looks like Dave Winer is working on another aggregator. Hopefully it will have a lot of new ideas because I think the feed reader space is a war of attrition right now.

It would be really slick to see Dave integrate OPML and SSE and maybe namespaces.

If he does I promise to add TailRank support.



  1. What we need is open server-side aggregator and attention APIs, exposed as RESTian services, XML, or JSONP. Then, developers can innovate with better AJAX/DHTML interfaces or just plain HTML ones if they mash up the APIs on the server side, and leave having to build their own gargantuan spider and data farm and having to take VC money. Seperate church and state, aggregator UI from aggregator backend.

  2. Who says you have to take VC money to do something cool any more :).

    Yeah. I expect more server-side APIs to emerge in 2006…

    Kevin

  1. 1 Alex Barnett blog

    Dave Winer is up to something new for 2006

    Via Kevin I heard that Dave Winer is up to something new for 2006…OPML at the heart of it is seems……