Bob Wyman: PubSub.com is willing to offer a $5,000 bounty to whoever builds the "best" full implementation as an open source Apache module by Jan 1, 2005.

It seems that some of the smaller but more aggressive feed consumers have the most to benefit from bandwidth reduction measures than even the mega colossal feed producers do.  Uncompressed, undelta'ed, full text feeds may be becoming the barrier to entry to the next Bloglines, Feedster, PubSub or Technorati.

Reading billions of blogs?  Partial gets maybe your hacking buddy.

Sam should have mentioned what the thing to be implemented is... What we're looking for is an implementation of RFC3229 with appropriate extensions for use with Feeds. See: [link] for some ideas on what I think is necessary in the area of feed-specific support.

We'll be defining the actual rules, etc. in more detail in the next few days. But, if you want to try this, start studying RFC3229 and Apache module building now!

bob wyman

In my haste to blog  the coolness yesterday, I missed the scoop:

Bob Wyman: PubSub.com is willing to offer a $5,000 bounty to whoever builds the "best" full implementation [of RFC3229 with appropriate extensions for use with Feeds] as an open sou...

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Anne van Kesteren : Bounty Posted - "Bob Wyman: PubSub.com is willing to offer a $5,000 bounty to whoever builds the 'best' full implementation as an open source Apache module by Jan 1, 2005."...

OK - so I now have a month of piled up - missed stories I should have blogged - but didn't. So here's MY link list: - "Honey, did you remember to call the DVD recorder?" - CNet article - pointed to by [Technology360] (Dennis L. Haarsager - Sept. 16th) - "Thingster Event Posts" - by Peter Caputa - Aug. 28th - and Thingster in general. - "MMOG Stats" - from Nelson's Weblog - Sept. 2. Lineage on the rise.... - "Flickr Wallpaper generator" - from Caterina fake on mikecpeck's work. - I just love the idea of a 'Bounty......