[Sigia-l] Wither the HomePage?

[Karl Fast]

> Tim Bray (I know some of you folks like him) claims the need for
> home pages is declining:
>
> <http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2003/05/25/HomePage>

Tim bought me dinner a few years ago at a conference so I am
predisposed to liking him.

Tim makes a good point. I have noticed similar things about my
online habits. RSS is changing how I use the net to stay informed.

Two important things from my experience:

  - I am an atypical user, but I don't know if I'm atypical in this
    case just cause I'm weird or because I'm an early adopter in
    this particular realm. 

  - I am not satisfied with most RSS clients. There is something
    missing in the interface. I think there is an opportunity to
    design a real winner of a product here through a good UCD
    process. Actually, I think there is an opportunity for several
    products depending on the market segment.

I totally agree with Tim that RSS is going to be huge. Perhaps the
technical details will change, but the basic idea here won't go
away.

    
--karl