Adam Bosworth writes: “Web services holds the potential to change all this and the rapid rise of mobile computing and occasionally connected laptops is going to help drive the changes. The world is now holding its breath for a zero-install cross platform browser that talks web services to the net, not HTML.”
This is where the microcontent client comes in. A related point echoed by Steve Gillmor: “We need something very much like an RSS information router, one with authenticated searchable persistence, shared cacheable peered feed notification servers, and automated RSS registration.”