I stumbled over Doc Searls “re-mail” entry, where he reflects on an earlier entry, about RSS is opt-in authenticated Email and the answer he’s gotten on that.
Interesting! ZAPPATA started out as a collaboration tool that would use the technologies from the syndication world ( RSS/Atom, polling ) to build a decentralised collaboration tool. And we built it and it worked.
Doc Searls says:
Can those three verbs (notify, subscribe, syndicate) from RSS give us the relationship-support tools we need to solve both the identity problem and the email problem along with it? Is Really Simple Email someting RSS can make possible? I dunno. It just has me thinking. We found, that it can’t. Well maybe it can, but not with todays tools. The problem being, that there are no client programs available that really allow you to get work done in the syndication world. And we didn’t believe that ZAPPATA could provide the world with the client to do the work.
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