The end of the poll internet

[wslh]

I have a lot of criticism on the Max's conclusion:

The observation is right, and I think almost everybody in the HN know that.

Now, I don't get the "... event notification model is much more efficient than a poll model, both in programming and in the real world."

Efficient in what terms? energy? because what I am seeing in my micro-internet-world is that the mainstream news/links are more mainstream and the Internet exploration goes to the bottom. I see repetitions of repetitions of repetitions and it feels like TV.

[ALXfoo]

Generalizations... For example is iTunes truly changing the face of the music industry? No, true music collectors, you know the ones that will remember a song for more than a week, seek high quality, both content and file format music elsewhere.

The same will happen to the non-braindead of the internet, sure garbage pushed information will become popular (like a G6) but truly good content will not disappear. It will however become harder to find, but that's a revolution for a later date.

[joelmichael]

Why would I want to be interrupted? That sounds annoying. I check Twitter and Facebook when I want to see updates. They aren't being "pushed" to me.

[mml]

Welcome to 1996. Pointcast anyone? Advertisers love the idea, people, not so much.

[dools]

What is RSS.

[Udo]

Dead, according to certain articles. I still use it daily though...

[RyanMcGreal]

You could say twitter is a friend-curated RSS feed that actually kind of works.

[arkitaip]

A tool more frequently only used by professionals. I can't recall a single friend or family member using or even talking about RSS. How about you guys?

[MatthewPhillips]

No mention of the incredibly awesome socket.io?