In the below entry, I expresse concern regarding Dave Winer’s belief that it should be illegal for Google to demonstrate a preference for a given data format. As I’ve thought about this, it has become clearer to me just how wrong-headed such a belief is. Antitrust considerations aside, I’m not sure I believe that it is even fundamentally wrong for Google to demonstrate a preference for a particular format per se.
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“I never in a million years thought Google would stoop this low, even Microsoft on its worst day never played this dirty.”
It appears that Google is fast becoming the “Evil Corporate Giant” de jour. And with Dave leading the “Shoot First, Ask Questions Later” crowd, it is not surprising to see so much invective about the alleged slight to RSS 2.0.
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I would absolutely LOVE
it if I could subscribe to RSS or Atom feeds containing the following information:
- Newspaper Classifieds (by category)
- Employment Postings (from Monster, Hot Jobs, Microsoft, etc.)
- Real Estate Listings (customized by various parameters a la Apple’s iTMS feeds
)
- Stock Quotes (one feed per symbol)
- Sports Box Scores (by team, by league, by sport)
- Athletes (Baseball/Football players; useful for those of us playing fantasy sports)
I’d volunteer my time to any company with meaningful content in any of the above areas stored in a useful form (no page-scraping) in order to provide/create and maintain the scripts/applications to generate such feeds.
Beyond that, though, what can be done to push syndication outside of the traditional news/blog boundaries to allow more data to be usefully centralized using aggregators, etc?
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