Tuesday, April 06, 2004

One click subscription, Life Blogs and the battle for world-domination

Dare Obasanjo (aka Carnage4Life) discusses the lack of adoption to one click subscription for RSS feeds. Dare is the author of the ever improving RSSBandit. I feel that the one-click subscription is vital to wider acceptance of news-aggregators and the general broader consumption of RSS feeds. Where's it all going to end up? Nokia's Life Blog allows people using a 6620 phone to capture events and blog them. Microsoft are setting their sites a little higher with 'MyLifeBits' and Google is attempting to exercise it's search engine technology by introducing 'GMail'. You can see where the battle-ground lays ahead -it's the catalog, storage and most importantly, easy retrieval of vast quantities of diverse information. If you ask me (which you haven't!), Google are going to take some beating. Couple all of this with the 'semantic web' (more simply explained in the BBC's article, 'Net guru peers into web's future')and Longhorn's WinFS and you can see that the battlefield is starting to be created.