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The end of the poll internet
- dools 16y agoWhat is RSS.
- Udo 16y agoDead, according to certain articles. I still use it daily though...
- RyanMcGreal 16y agoYou could say twitter is a friend-curated RSS feed that actually kind of works.
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- InclinedPlane 16y agoTwitter isn't a "thing" any more than the telephone network is a "thing", it's a communication medium, and thus has a kajillion different forms.
- arkitaip 16y agoA tool more frequently only used by professionals. I can't recall a single friend or family member using or even talking about RSS. How about you guys?
- MatthewPhillips 16y agoYour friends and family use RSS every day.
- BCM43 16y agoHow so?
- MatthewPhillips 16y agoI was going to say that it's the pipes of the applications they use, but now I'm thinking I might be wrong. We've stupidly moved to an internet of proprietary APIs.
- MatthewPhillips 16y agoNo mention of the incredibly awesome socket.io?
- wslh 16y agoI have a lot of criticism on the Max's conclusion: The observation is right, and I think almost everybody in the HN know that. Now, I don't get the "... event notification model is much more efficient than a poll model, both in programming and in the real world." Efficient in what terms? energy? because what I am seeing in my micro-internet-world is that the mainstream news/links are more mainstream and the Internet exploration goes to the bottom. I see repetitions of repetitions of repetitions and it feels like TV.
- ALXfoo 16y agoGeneralizations... For example is iTunes truly changing the face of the music industry? No, true music collectors, you know the ones that will remember a song for more than a week, seek high quality, both content and file format music elsewhere. The same will happen to the non-braindead of the internet, sure garbage pushed information will become popular (like a G6) but truly good content will not disappear. It will however become harder to find, but that's a revolution for a later date.
- joelmichael 16y agoWhy would I want to be interrupted? That sounds annoying. I check Twitter and Facebook when I want to see updates. They aren't being "pushed" to me.
- mml 16y agoWelcome to 1996. Pointcast anyone? Advertisers love the idea, people, not so much.