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1151 cloud-enabled feeds

Friday, September 04, 2009 by Dave Winer.

I just added a changes.xml for my rssCloud server. 

http://static.scripting.com/rsscloud/changes.xml 

Now you'll see a whole bunch of cloud-enabled feeds that weren't there before. They're feeds for the 1151 people and organizations that I follow on Twitter. 

They're automatically produced by an app that I've had running since the beginning of 2009 that keeps an XML-based backup for everyone I follow. This is just another form of that stream. 

If you follow any of these people in River2, and you have notification turned on, you'll get updates within a minute, knock wood. 

This is another piece of the loosely-coupled 140 character network. 

Another way of saying this is if I follow you on Twitter, you now have a cloud-enabled feed. Try updating on Twitter, and refreshing changes.xml in a minute. If all goes well you should see your feed at the top of the list. 

For a lot of users looking in, this probably means as much as the pictures of the Bay Bridge being taken apart and put back together. But when it's done, you'll be able to drive a car across it! :-)