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allconsuming.net has a SOAP interface. Nice and easy to call and use. But for those (including me) who (also) have a REST bent, there is also a tip-o’-the-hat style flavour that has interesting possibilities. The (readonly) methods are also available as URLs like this: http://allconsuming.net/soap-client.cgi?hourly=1 or http://allconsuming.net/soap-client.cgi?friends=1&url=http://www.pipetree.com/qmacro where the methods are “GetHourlyList()” (hourly=1) and “GetFriends()” [...]

It seems that beyond carrying syndication information, RSS is a very useful and flexible way to get all sorts of application data pushed to a user over time. In the same way that a web browser is a universal canvas upon which limitless services and information can be painted, so (in an albeit much smaller [...]