  Give me a few more days and I'll be able to rapid-fire explain why the discussion introduced in Steve Gillmor's urlLink blog (a portion of which is pasted below) and then further continued in urlLink another blog is or is not relevant to us. . . Gillmor's blog. . . Alchemy is Adam Bosworth's soon-to-be-open-sourced intelligent caching mechanism to provide rich client functionality with browser rendering.
Wait a minute, says Rick Klau in his E-mail as a platform - Why Gmail Will Win post, where he suggests: And all it’s going to take is for Google to add an RSS/ATOM reader to Gmail. Just like that, they’ll create a killer app for e-mail, enhance their searching algorithms (think of all the rich data they’ll have by aggregating feed reading behavior with search behavior), and start to seamlessly blend the web, messaging and syndication.
Of course, Google's not talking, at least not since my conversation with Sergey Brin. But Bosworth is, as Phil Windley noticed in his RSS Middleware post 
