Archive for March 23rd, 2004
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Tuesday, March 23rd, 2004
RSSify - an example of the cost of novelty "Web Services"
RSSify was pretty cool. It could turn a non-RSSing blog into RSS for consumption by aggregators. But here’s the catch–it caught on so much that it was hogging precious bandwidth (see below). Successful grass roots services (not necessarily limited to XML-RPC/SOAP) face the same problem–becoming the victim of their own success.
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