http://www.burningdoor.com/eric/archives/001083.html Comments and trackbacks for the entry "Scattered Pieces of You" en-us eric@burningdoor.com eric@burningdoor.com Fri, 25 Feb 2005 15:32:47 CDT RSS Movable Type v3.14 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss http://www.burningdoor.com/eric/archives/001083.html In a post on Burning Questions, we talked about how popular our feed splicing services are, and offered up this perspective on where we think things are going:[F]or some, the feed is becoming a first-class citizen in the world of content, and FeedBurner wants to help. Feeds pretty much started out being a lightweight content transport, or a notification mechanism. This remains a completely valid and appropriate use of feeds: as an extension of your web site that draws users to visit your web-based content. But as publishing tools begin to specialize ("I keep my photos on Flickr, my blog's with Blogger, I use del.icio.us to store my links, and then I've got my calendar, NetFlix queue, Amazon wish list, and so on and so forth"), it starts to get harder and harder to point to a single URL and say "This is me." The one thing that all of these content sources have in common, however, is the ability to provide a standardized representation of themselves as a feed. A FeedBurner goal is to help you collect and manage the "scattered pieces of you" into a single resource that can easily be shared with others. The feed starts to... http://www.burningdoor.com/eric/archives/001083.html 1083@http://www.burningdoor.com/eric/ Fri, 25 Feb 2005 15:32:47 CDT Dancing About Architecture