It’s been a while since Ray Ozzie first posted on their Really Simple Sharing extension to RSS called SSE.

Like Dave - I was immediately struck with how this extension could be used for purposes OTHER than how Ray and Microsoft saw it.  MS sees SSE as the “RSS of synchronization.”  Dave sees it applicable to “replicating changes among OPML lists or outlines being managed within different services or by different people.” [as Ray describes it]

I’m still percolating on this - but I thought I’d spawn a meme on this - that SSE can be even more fundamental.  It could be a mechanism of connecting any node of an outline, document, service or application - to any other ‘node’.

By combining lists tgoether, resolving overlay redundancies and conflict and updating in near real-time - I’M PRETTY SURE - that SEE could be the glue we’ve been waiting for - to inter-connect content together, between disparate apps, servcies and networks.

This goes back to the limiting factors of HTML.  Everything is not a web page.

Hypelinking is coolio, media hyperlinking woild be even more coolio - but it still reaks of a ‘one-way’ connection.  Back BEFORE T B-L we often dreamed of linking things together - but it was always as a two-way connection.  Hard wiring the web into browsers was a nice way to kick start the web, but it lacks the power of two-way linking and synchronzing between sources which are changing.l

Ray Ozzie has spent the past 15 years doing groupware and it seems to me that SSE as a mechanism for synchronizing calendars and contact lists - is just the start.

This all leads me to ask “how does Chanlder do that?”

Anyway I’m far from having a conclusive design based upon SSE - but it’s definitely something we’d bake into our tools.

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