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After writing my last post I went to the Panel Discussion The Future of RSS: Beyond Blogging, in which Amar Ghandhi (GPM on the RSS platform), Doug Purdy (LPM on WCF), the CTO of Newsgator (forgot his name), the Chief Architect on MBS (forgot his name too), the RSS Evangelist at Amazon (you get the drift), a PM on Start.com, aswell as Robert Scoble.
The discussion was okay, but was pretty main stream. As Erik Dibbern Röser and I talked about, it would be interesting if Microsoft explained their vision with RSS, not just that it should be used, but how it correlates with Web Services and the WCF stack, and when should it be used. What types of information is RSS good for? Can we use it for alerts, and if so how do we ensure that the alert has truly been received and read by the receiver. How about bandwidth control and monitoring. If I publish a price catalog or an inventory status via RSS, and extend the format to use a schema which fits my organization, this document could be pretty big. If my subscribers poll this every 5 minutes (or in shorter intervals), how do I ensure proper response time, and keep bandwidth usage to a minimum.
Maybe I should think more about this and try out some stuff. I’ve also been thining about Distributed RSS, kind of like BitTorrent. Anywar, for another time.

Next up was Avalon + Indigo = Magic with Doug Purdy and Chris Sells

Lunch Session How Microsoft gathers Expense reports on Mobile devices.

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