Comments on: Reminder by RSS

By: Lou

Lou — Tue, 27 Dec 2005 18:41:01 +0000

Vincent – You missed my point. The time when you need to be reminded of things you need to do is when you’re NOT in front of your computer. So if you’re going to use your PDA or cell phone to receive RSS feeds with reminders in them, why not just use the built in features of your favorite hand-held device (whatever it may be) to setup reminders for yourself, and not introduce yet another way of doing things? Just because it’s possible doesn’t automatically make it useful, IMHO. Lou

P.S. please feel free to apply my last comment there to the ENTIRE web 2.0 craze.

By: Vincent

Vincent — Tue, 27 Dec 2005 18:12:05 +0000

Well, about that PDA. I for example dont want to carry around a cellphone AND a PDA AND a pager AND a camera; I like to combine things. So nowadays I use a cellphone with integrated camera and PDA functions.
I think in the case of combining software solutions (reminders) we could all use the RSS format…

By: Lou

Lou — Tue, 27 Dec 2005 17:34:14 +0000

As if the wires aren’t already clogged with useless garbage … spam, splogs, etc … now we need to encourage people to generate more useless internet traffic? What’s wrong with using a calendar or other PIM application to give yourself reminders of things you need to do? How about a PDA or Blackberry? What a waste of time – truly a solution in search of a problem.