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Syndicated RSS Crime!

No, No, I’m not talking literally about syndicated crime. Just the meaning and use of RSS in today’s webpage and how it has develop in today’s technology.

RSS is a data format used to to provide users with frequently updated content. This data is widely used in providing upadated blog entries, news feed, podcasts and many more, it exist as a document called feed, webfeed, or channel that contains what the blog, news or podcast is about, literally it is a summary of the document. It is designed to help people keeping up with their favorite websites easier.

The history of RSS  started as an attempt to syndicate formats, which didn’t do pretty well with Netscape as a portal, later it was picked up by UserLand  Software where it was used as a publishing tools that could read and write RSS.

Other companies also release newer version of RSS software and that they came out with different icon to represent the RSS icon which was debatable who has the right to do so. In 2005 Microsoft finally adopted the the feed icon that was used in Mozilla Firefox and since then the RSS icon has been the orange box with white radio waves enclosed in it.

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2 Responses to “Syndicated RSS Crime!”

  1. Kirdric Hill Says:
    November 29, 2007 at 12:42 am

    Syndicated RSS Crime – It’s hard for me to determine what you were trying to say. Are you saying that Syndication via RSS is misused or that RSS users are getting away like bandits?

    You article was informative however I wasn’t clear on your position in regards to RSS use. I think that RSS is very useful for those of us that really use the web. It pains me to go to sites that have some good content however feeds are not available (I can’t load them into my aggregator).

  2. jansenborg Says:
    December 2, 2007 at 9:55 pm

    Kirdric,
    Thank you very much for your input.
    Let me update the blog for you.
    However, I think that it is most unfortunate that the many of the labels or logos that was used had never sticked with RSS, to me the crime is that Microsoft had taken a chance to “use” the logo that Firefox used. I think that that is an infringement.
    I apologize if I was not clear on it.

    Jansen.

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