RSScache.com: Here’s a free service to cache your RSS feed which we’ve talked about here and here. This site subscribes to your RSS feed, then translates that into a much narrower one for dissemination to end users. Users subscribe to the feed through this site, instead of through your actual site (how would you enforce this? thought a redirect, perhaps?).
It’s free, but they tack a little link into the bottom of each entry which refers people to their service. I think the idea is to actually sell the services to “enterprises,” but why wouldn’t they just use the free service? If you proxy their URL, you could even make them do all the work without anyone knowing about them.
Related to Joe's post about Microsoft's RSS bandwidth issues, I'm seeing a lot of talk about the blogosphere about an RFC from January 2002: RFC 3229, "Delta encoding in HTTP." The idea behind this RFC is to just send the deltas — the changes — between a current document and the…
Since everyone but the janitor started blogging at Microsoft, they've been aggregating their blogs into one big honkin' feed that I call The Fire Hose, since reading it is like trying to drink from a fire hose. I find some interesting stories occasionally, but I probably missed 50 since I…