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		<title>To all would-be Twitter competitors</title>
		<dateCreated>Fri, 12 Aug 2011 15:40:00 GMT</dateCreated>
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		<ownerName>Dave Winer</ownerName>
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		<outline created="Fri, 12 Aug 2011 15:40:00 GMT" ctSaves="8" flPreview="false" id="2011.08.12.1215" server="xmlrpc://cms.scripting2.com:5337/RPC2" storySerialNum="1215" text="To all would-be Twitter competitors" type="scripting2Post" url="http://scripting.com/stories/2011/08/12/toAllWouldbeTwitterCompeti.html" username="davewiner" versionClient="0.44" versionServer="0.44" whenLastSave="Fri, 12 Aug 2011 19:15:15 GMT">
			<outline created="Fri, 12 Aug 2011 15:36:27 GMT" pgfnum="8700" text="I have three RSS feeds that I update as often as I update Twitter that are suitable for flowing through your web app."></outline>
			<outline created="Fri, 12 Aug 2011 15:36:40 GMT" pgfnum="8701" text="&lt;a href=&quot;http://static.reallysimple.org/worldoutline/dave/rss.xml&quot;&gt;http://static.reallysimple.org/worldoutline/dave/rss.xml&lt;/a&gt;"></outline>
			<outline created="Fri, 12 Aug 2011 15:39:40 GMT" pgfnum="8707" text="&lt;a href=&quot;http://static.reallysimple.org/users/dave/linkblog.xml&quot;&gt;http://static.reallysimple.org/users/dave/linkblog.xml&lt;/a&gt;"></outline>
			<outline created="Fri, 12 Aug 2011 16:31:05 GMT" pgfnum="8708" text="&lt;a href=&quot;http://bits.codecasting.org/rss.xml&quot;&gt;http://bits.codecasting.org/rss.xml&lt;/a&gt;"></outline>
			<outline created="Fri, 12 Aug 2011 15:36:43 GMT" pgfnum="8702" text="They support rssCloud so the updates are available instantaneously. "></outline>
			<outline created="Fri, 12 Aug 2011 15:37:43 GMT" pgfnum="8703" text="I'm not asking you to support &quot;standards&quot; -- I think that's a shortcut we don't need to take. The incentive is that I'm putting out a fair amount of good stuff, imho, and I'm making tools that others will be able to use, so there's a cow path to be paved here that leads somewhere good. Plus if you support it, you almost certainly get me on board as an evangelist.">
				<outline created="Fri, 12 Aug 2011 19:11:39 GMT" pgfnum="8709" text="What I mean by shortcut: Some people say you should do it their way because it's a &quot;standard&quot; but they don't explain why it's a standard. "></outline>
				<outline created="Fri, 12 Aug 2011 19:12:05 GMT" pgfnum="8710" text="This is esp difficult when what they're proposing does more or less exactly the same thing as a format or protocol that's already widely used. "></outline>
				<outline created="Fri, 12 Aug 2011 19:12:32 GMT" pgfnum="8711" text="If they're so keen on interop (the reason to use a standard in the first place) why didn't they just use what was already out there? "></outline>
				<outline created="Fri, 12 Aug 2011 19:12:53 GMT" pgfnum="8712" text="In other words, there are other motivations. That's one of the reasons I don't use the word myself until there's almost universal adoption of a format or protocol. And then you don't need to say it so much. :-)"></outline>
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			<outline created="Fri, 12 Aug 2011 15:38:43 GMT" pgfnum="8705" text="I thought I should make my proposition explicit. "></outline>
			<outline created="Fri, 12 Aug 2011 15:38:55 GMT" pgfnum="8706" text="And of course the prop is open to Twitter as well. I've made it before, but the door remains open."></outline>
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