This post originated from an RSS feed registered with Ruby Buzz by Tobias Luetke. Original Post: Syndication and TaDa Feed Title: too-biased Feed URL: http://blog.leetsoft.com/xml/rss/ Feed Description: Read the announcement: CD Baby rewrite in Postgres and Ruby, Baby!CD Baby is going rails. This is huge! If you don’t know CD Baby, its a distribution site with over 80.000 musicians under contract and its one of the biggest digital distributors of audio to Apple iTunes, Napster, Rhapsody, etc.  Read all about it here. What is even more exciting about it is that I’m on board for the rewrite and I had chance to talk to Derek on the phone directly for a consulting session which might have played its little part in the decision to go with rails. Come monday I’ll work together with him and other rails contributor Jeremy Kemper to help crunch those 90k lines of PHP in beautifully compact code for which Rails and Ruby are known. Here is a quote from Derek’s announcement on his weblog: Like a lost soul walkin’ the earth, lookin’ for spirituality, that stumbles upon the right church with the right people at the right time, I’ve found my niche with Ruby. Its little itty-bitty community attracts some brilliant “think different” types with a love for beautiful code that do this for love, not money. Latest Ruby Buzz Posts Latest Ruby Buzz Posts by Tobias Luetke Latest Posts From too-biased

I’m a great believer in the semantic web and syndication.

I like applications which specialize on one task and do it very well. Ta-da is such a website, Flickr is one or photos and 43things for your ambitions.

They cut right though the crap and concentrate on the core of the issue. Why are those pages successful now and weren’t 5 years ago? The simple answer is syndication. Your data is never lost in some proprietary data pit;It actually gets more accessible after you entered it!

To back up this claim I spend some time today to integrate Ta-da list into this Blog (see right hand side). And see how nicely it works.

If you like playing with websites like the ones I mentioned above there is an great number of information you can syndicate back to your homepage about yourself. I’ll try to add one new syndication to the page whenever I have time.

The web is an exciting place!