I've added an RSS feed I just created to my blog here; Top SIP Devices for AIM Call. This is the 5 most viewed device pages in the last 4 weeks on voice.aol.com. Go "Web 2.0" I suppose.
I clearly remember using Mosaic to browse HTML pages and thinking "Wow, this is so much easier than Gopher". Today, in about 10 minutes, I was able to create a live RSS feed of the the most popular articles in a subset of a web site and import that as a handy list on my blog. Seems like a great improvement over the early days of the World Wide Web doesn't it.
But when you think about it, the technology to do it really doesn't seem all that advanced. It's just a database query, a sort, a truncate and then an import. UNIX has been doing piped commands like that for, what, almost 40 years now? Congratulations Web 2.0, on being able to do things the Unix command line could do 30 years ago. I guess you're much more colourful than Unix was. That's something.
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