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This page explores some of the emerging tools being used to share rapidly changing newslike content, text and links, on the web. We are investigating syndicating content from this site using some of these tools.

Our Test Bed page discusses other (some of them rather controversial) emerging tools for sharing other kinds of files: code, data, etc.

Moreover.com
Our newsfeeds currently come from Moreover.com, which makes available news on more than 250 different topics, updated many times a day.

Some Background
This is just the tip of the iceberg, however. In addition to the expansion of conventional news organizations on the Web and the growth of news aggregation services like Moreover, there has been, in the past year or so, an explosion of open source and do-it-yourself news-sharing and organizing, building on protocols like RSS, RDF, and XML. The O'Reilly Network background page linked above offers access to more details about this process. Or you can plunge right into this collection of articles from xmlhack about XML related protocols.

Mozilla (Netscape 6)
With the impending emergence of the new Netscape browser, designed to take advantage of these protocols in its sidebar, these capabilities are likely to continue to grow rapidly, creating new ways for specialists to share and discuss the latest news in their field.

MyUserland
Dave Winer has been a major innovator in this area and maintains this multifaceted resource, including Scripting News.

Meercat
An entry into the diversity of news sources relevant to web developers is the new O'Reilly Network site Meercat, "an open wire service designed to keep developers on top of rapidly-changing technology news" that uses RSS.

A Different Take
The folks at Clickfeed.com offer their own perspective on who's who in the emergence of news aggregation techniques. Among the innovators in this wing: Slashdot and Blogger.