>an open protocol like email or the reason twitter beat rss is because 1) it was a directory of things to follow 2) it offered a public comment layer for som

>an open protocol like email or the reason twitter beat rss is because 1) it was a directory of things to follow 2) it offered a public comment layer for something like rss to overtake twitter, you need a technorati/yahoo/dmoz to index it, and you need an annotation layer like reddit comments or hypothesis