Re: Digest Number 766

["jdklub" <pseudonym@mindspring.com>]

> What was the first event aggregator?
> I ask, partially because I am curious,
> and partly ebcause I may have a claim to it. 

The first one? That's probably debatable depending on how you want to
define "event aggregator." Sixapart.com (the MovableType and TypePad
folks) had set up several TrackBack-based event aggregators over the
past year [1]. Whether you would call that an aggregator or a
TrackBack endpoint depends on how broadly or narrowly you want to
think about the terms and technologies. 

The system I setup isn't TrackBack or PingBack enabled (yet?), it just
collects and compiles from RSS feeds. The one you setup seems to do
the same type of thing. You may have been the first, at least where
that specific type of aggregation is concerned. 

> I am a close watcher of this field, 

I think it's an interesting field too, and I'm curious to see if it
goes anywhere. So far, no one has created any events on the service I
setup. Maybe that's an indication it's not going anywhere, fast. 

[1] http://www.sixapart.com/log/2002/12/trackback_and_c.shtml