Thoughts on the Design of RSS Aggregators
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The other day, at the Emerging Technology SIG, Doug Cutting gave a talk on Lucene and Nutch. Before the talk, Doug casually mentioned that he used a server-based RSS aggregator. Similarly, in the responses to my blog entry on RSS Aggregrators, someone mentioned they use bloglines. This is interesting to me. In my mind, and I was probably guided by the intuition that a “web browser is a client,” RSS Aggregators were naturally client side. By which I mean, my first inclination was that RSS Aggregators naturally run on the end-user’s machine, rather than on a centralized server farm. There are counterexamples, though. For example, Bloglines is an RSS Aggregator that runs out there somewhere and returns your results as a web page.
