Open Classifieds
Via Marc's Voice and Adam Curry: rss classifieds. Rusty Coats: "Most of the RSS community is focused on content. That's great; so was the early Web. But feeding classified ads to aggregators is the next obvious step, and will prove to be hugely profitable for newspapers -- or whoever decides to do it first."
Marc adds: This is a real - rubber hits the road - pragmatic usage of RSS. Certainly a candidate for another 'micro-content' type.
As a former board member at Electric Classifieds, I agree this is a huge market for RSS. The problem with every proprietary implementation of classifieds technology has been the design intent's focus on maintaining a destination for the classified listing. Slowly but surely the market has moved toward nationally or internationally searchable classifieds across multiple sites.
Dan Gillmor has this to add: "RSS is a key part of the developing conversation we're all having. May it spread, farther and wider, faster."
Just chiming in here. It's great to see RSS spread out into data-oriented applications, not just news content. With namespaces support in RSS 2.0, I suspect we'll see it applied in lots of vertical domains, simply because the parsers, clients and servers are becomming so widely available. More to support the idea of RSS services as the true web services of our day.
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