‘Appcasting’ - keep your software up to date via RSS enclosures
Can’t keep all the software things you’ve downloaded up to date? (Ignore this if you don’t care, obviously.) Why not use RSS so the developer can keep you up to date, and even better send the thing out over RSS as an enclosure which you can blithely pick up from your feed?
It’s podcasting without the ‘ums’ and the worrying feeling that they did it in their pajamas… yes, it’s Appcasting, from that Speirs laddie. Very neat.
The remarkable thing is that NetNewsWire hasn’t adopted it yet, but it’s only.. um.. I don’t know how new this idea is because there’s no date on the page. Still, have you heard it anywhere else?
- These posts might be related (the database thinks..):
- What is codecasting? Dave Winer's new name for Fraser Speirs's appcasting idea (2 March 2007; score: 92.45%)
- A question for the Microsofties out there: ever been hit by a virus? (8 October 2004; score: 36.46%)
- A PHP/MySQL question - geeks only need apply: how to get a formatted date from an associative array (17 March 2007; score: 30.34%)
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