Has anyone noted a slow move from AvantGo to RSS? Quite a few sites (at least in the United Kingdom) have been closing down their AvantGo services in favour of a bespoke paying service; the latest domino to fall is The Times, whose AvantGo service closed last week - not that anyone would have known without trying, and failing, to access it as there was no publicity - and has been replaced by a paying service which costs �40 per year.
It would be interesting to know how many subscribers these services have; I suspect they are in the hundreds as I understand The Guardian has about 5,000 readers via PDAs and mobile phones. (The Guardian is not a conventional company, being owned by the C P Scott Trust, so is not subject to as intense commercial pressures as a plc and is unlikely to make its PDA service paying; ditto the BBC). Yet, in quite a number of cases, openly available RSS feeds are popping up instead - talk about self-contradiction! Thus plucking RSS feeds might eventually become more important than plucking plain HTML ... Alastair _______________________________________________ plucker-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.rubberchicken.org/mailman/listinfo/plucker-list
