New Companies Will Be Built with SSE

by Michael Arrington on November 21, 2005

Wow, am I excited this morning to see Microsoft announce Simple Sharing Extensions (SSE), which turns RSS bidirectional and which is released under the Creative Commons License. I wrote more about this at CrunchNotes, but I want to mention it here because this is an incredibly important technology that will allow entirely new classes of companies to be built. Dave Winer’s excited too.

Comments

Alterion - November 21st, 2005 at 10:20 am PST

bi direction rss.. droool.. reaaly this is a great eice of tech then. And CC licensed.. now THAT’S cool. very good news

reply
Jeff Rogers - November 21st, 2005 at 11:33 am PST

This probably would be great for creating discussion feedback via RSS. But if that happens, what will Riff do?

reply
Fergus Burns - November 21st, 2005 at 12:09 pm PST

Hi Mike

Certainly put’s the pressure on RSS vendors… (ourselves included

with Google Base, SSE, etc a whole host of new opportunities are possible

Regards
Fergus

reply
Stefan Constantinescu - November 21st, 2005 at 3:01 pm PST

Newsgator watch out! Now all we need is an rss reader that’s able to top feed demon.

reply
Josh Santangelo - November 21st, 2005 at 10:44 pm PST

It’s a good idea, for sure. As far as “companies being built on the back of it,” I imagine the first one depending upon it will be MS itself. It wouldn’t have come out if it didn’t solve a problem they were currently having. One wonders what those might be — there are obvious applications to things like Outlook calendars, etc, but maybe there’s something larger coming in Live.

reply