I was just thinking how amazing it'll be once we can aggregate our own RSS into this chat and it's transparent to everyone. My goodness that'll be amazing.
We thought about doing that and decided not to.
Just wrote a post about that on scripting.
Don't think of this as a product Rob. Think about features you want in other people's products. Think of this as a source of feeds, not a destination for them.
I have a whole other product for that called FeedLand, btw. ;-)
Also that's something micro.blog does really well.
I support what Manton has done there.
We have to work together to build the web, we can't do it by all trying to work with the BigCo's. They have other (understandable) motives.