What Is RSS Really Good For?Oct12

Brooks Jordan 0 comments

Jeff Nolan, known for his blogging at SAP who is now at Teqlo (a startup that allows business users to create their own apps), wrote on his blog that if he were doing an RSS company, he would use it to leverage cross-functional apps by using RSS as a "semantic data integration tool."

He doesn't give a lot of detail but, in my mind, "leveraging cross-functional apps" with a "semantic data integration tool" is quite similar to what Ray Ozzie has demonstrated with Live Clipboard. There is semantic data (i.e., data that contains meaning like microformats) within distinct apps at one or multiple points, all strung together with RSS feeds.

This could be a very light weight, quick and effective way for apps to talk to each other ("always on and two way"). I think it's interesting to note that in a stream-of-consciousness post, Jeff offered this as his bet on RSS.