Okai this seems something kool and good, a month back when i planned to sell my car i place an ad in the newspaper & payed 600 Rs,  i received tons of phone calls for the price and specs and hardly 2 people showed up to take a look at my car and the deal didnt go so my car didnt got sold.

So a bit dishearten i posted my car’s add on  PakWheels.com, a local site run from Karachi i guess which provide you ability to place an add for your car for free of cost with pictures & specs. I did that,  and i started receiving e-mail requests for car info those who contact me were the potential buyers i guess, very interested thought the response was very less as compared to the newspaper ad but was legitimate, i also got requests for car exchange which was something new, i had heard about other swapping but car’s too ? Finally after few days a potential buyer showed up after seeing the ad from the site, checked out my car on Friday and bought my car on Saturday and for me “I just sold my car online in Pakistan”. Now if you belong to a western country this might be something that is normal but in Pakistan where the local .com bubble is building this was something exciting. So i guess things are moving ahead here as well!

A leaked video from google reveals there next evolution :

• Google will work on a standard for feed publishers to tell aggegrators about changes in the feed
• The Reader team is going to integrate more social features
• Google is interested in allowing users to comment on items they share
• Very soon, Reader will recommend feeds to the user, based on previous subscriptions and other Google activity.
• Reader might be more directly monetized in the future, but Google wants to watch out showing ads next to other people’s content. This is a problem with Google News too. They might do something like they did with the non-free Opera: show the content owners’ ads in the interface when they’re AdSense publishers.

At my first look at the Google reader i didnt like many things in it, one of which is the interface which was almost a clone of Gmail, i had no plan to switch to Google Reader as i was happy with netvibes but i faced problems with netvibes one of which was slow response and very tight space for the RSS. Also they loaded all rss feeds immediately so a person like me who is subscribed to almost more then 250 RSS  feeds its difficult for the netvibes to load up all my data in one go. So i switched to Google Reader which is now i think far more better then Netvibes.

So far the evolution of Google RSS feeds do look kool, but i hope that they work on implementing the a ranking system for the feeds as well on the basis of no of subscribers, quality of content and ofcourse with this a RSS feed search engine is also essential. Ads are already pulling up in feeds via feedburner and i hope they dont put up more ads in the RSS Reader.

Another concern is that the RSS feeds are a one way traffic could it be possible to make it a two way traffic, can RSS communicate back to the publisher with comments ?