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Many of us never left. Yes, it was disappointing for a few days when google changed horses. Their loss. The article failed to mention that RSS feeds are the backbone of Amazon's Alexa Flash Briefings. Seems once again, Bezos and crew know best.

Shameless plug for our Flash Briefing (available on Alexa, iTunes, and our website but only available the days ending in "y"): http://jmpurl.info/flashbriefing



I think the world is moving to a repeatable and reusable style of storing data.

RSS and JSON have become standards that people can use for data on multiple platforms.


Agreed. It is an API world. I recall trying make sense of xml then came RSS feeds. Then, why JSON, and now you can have RSS like feeds (and a lot more) via JSON.




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