Alex Yakhnin - Y.A.R.F (Yet Another RSS Framework) or RSS could be more important then you think.

The “RSS”, “blogging”, “PODcasting”, “OPML” – these acronyms are becoming increasingly big in the technology world. Especially after Microsoft had announced about RSS support in the Longhorn err… Vista and IE7. The MSDN article mentions photo blogs, moblogs, and video blogs as well as calendar feeds. But wait a second. Why does it have to run on a desktop? I am pretty sure that all these usage scenarios are perfect fit Mobile devices as well. So here’s a hint for Mobile devices / developers teams at Microsoft – let’s extend the “RSS everywhere” paradigm to the Windows CE platform as well. Call me crazy, but I also think RSS feeds could become more then an XML over HTTP. RSS feeds and lists don’t have to be blogs. They could as well include any type of business information that needs to be updated on a regular basis. What prevents us to use RSS over different communication channels like UDP or TCP?