Pure pull systems suffer from polling overhead. This is already becoming a
problem
with RSS and think how few people know what RSS is. This is a potentially major
scalability problem.
See
http://philringnalda.com/blog/2002/10/joels_rss_problem.php
http://www.sidhe.org/~dan/blog/archives/000149.html
http://www.sidhe.org/~dan/blog/archives/000170.html
http://www.mnot.net/blog/2003/05/03/rss_traffic_characterisation
http://www.teledyn.com/mt/archives/001496.html
http://www.teledyn.com/mt/archives/001499.html
http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2003/08/02/RSSNumbers
The next major version of Windows (Longhorn) is slated to include an RSS
reader. I
think it was on the alphas distributed at PDC and available to MSDN subscribers.
Personally I use a web-based RSS aggregator, which keeps things synched between
home
and office. It also has much lower bandwidth usage than client-side readers.
I use bloglines (http://www.bloglines.com/), but there are some others:
http://mywireservice.com/
http://fyuze.com/
http://www.newsisfree.com/
http://www.feed-me.info/DesktopDefault.aspx
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