Adam Curry is paying developers to not develop for the (n)echo project.
The story goes like this: A year and a half ago, Adam paid Userland $10,000 to ensure his site was pre-installed in the Userland aggregator's RSS feeds.
Now, he feels threatened by the emergence of a new aggregation format, (n)echo, developed by Sam Ruby. He's again wanting to make a $10,000 investment in RSS technologies, but this time he's distributing it to developers who work on aggregators that support RSS 2.0. The catch? You're disqualified from receiving the funds if you include (n)echo.
I have a feeling that (n)echo won't be discouraged by Curry's desperate measures... in fact, it's likely that the project will thrive because of the enhanced publicity.
I'm surprised Curry isn't working for Microsoft. This seems totally within their realm of reality. Instead of seeing two models of aggregation, that can compete healthily, Curry is throwing money to support a model that he likes, in the hopes of destroying the other.
What the hell is wrong with another news aggregator format? Ok, he paid $10k (WTF????) to get put on everyone's radio xml2 feed, and now feels "fucked" by another format? How exactly? You paid for placement (which is lame to begin with), so just get them to put you by default on all feed types or something.
-- Posted by >> Arcterex » Wednesday, July 9, 2003 09:58 AMThere aren't any ads on his site that I can see, so him building up a bigger or smaller audience isn't going to make him money, so as far as I can see his ego is going to whither because not as many people are reading him. WTF is this guy?
Dude, he's a former Vee-Jay on MTV. He got canned (along with his big hair) and needs something else to inflate his ego... since getting rid of the big hair *something* has to support it. (sorry Adam, loved ya on MTV but c'mon now.)
I'm one of those "the more the merrier" types when it comes to technology like this. It reminds me of the 56k... debolicle, when we had x2 and Flex. Amazingly enough, neither won out and the two were combined into a standard (iirc). I see that happening with RSS and (n)echo down the line. Or one will fail. Who cares which one, just so long as what survives works well and does what we want it to do?
-- Posted by >> Kethryvis » Thursday, July 10, 2003 08:20 PMPost a comment
* under no circumstances will your email address be traded for a sack of quarters. No-sirree.