NewsRiver: The end of the Web as we know it
Hallelujah! Hallelujah! The day is almost here.
I’ve been talking heavily about a change in which pure conversation (ala Cluetrain) takes over the web.
Talk and share, as opposed to publish and read. While it sounds obvious, and aspects of this can be seen in file-sharing networks, Instant Messengers and even plain old email, there is a richer soil to till in the fertile grounds of RSS and OPML and SSE.
That combined with a distributed, peer-like architecture will bring about the decline of the browser and homepage and the rise of the web coupling.
A newsreader/writer like device which handles our communications, commerce, whatever.
We are seeing a home-page and browser decline with the popularity of RSS readers and still there are cries from the likes of Steve Gillmor and others that we will not click-through to web-pages in posts which do not include its full content.
The Web is disintermediating the Web.
We are well on our way with the release of the NewsRiver aggregator API , by Dave Winer.
The first of the next-generation web tools will be built upon the NewsRiver platform. Mark my words. As sure as the Pope is Italian. (Uhh…you know what I mean)
The rules have once again changed.
Dave Winer has done it again.