My RSS Addiction

RSS is everywhere. If you listen to the spoutlet coming out of Redmond, you have heard
that RSS will be everywhere. Ubiquitous even. Apparently it is a good idea
to RSS enable Longhorn (I mean Vista) in ways that will oly make sense when we see
it.

Sure, subscribing to build notifications, defect entries, blogs, and the AP wire all
make good sense. I have seen several examples of being able to subscribe to a query
within a system (like My Bugs) that are really handy.

There are a host of products and sites out there today making ingenious use of RSS
and I have a jones for at least one of them.

Believe it or not, it is the stupidest data set I can imagine, and boy, is it ever
handy. I am looking to guy a jeep and am looking for a particular set of requirements
in my purchase. I have subscribed to some queries in Craig’s List that alert me whenever
a jeep comes up for sale in either Boise, Salt Lake, Portland, Spokane, or Seattle.
Wow is this ever cool.

This is as exciting as watching an auction on eBay and speaking of that; eBay should
let me subscribe to auction activities on items that I am watching or selling.

Maybe Redmond is on to something. Ya think?