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June 23, 2005 | Comments: (0)
Microsoft extends RSS support
Microsoft on Friday will announce it plans to deepen its support of Really Simple Syndication (RSS) Web publishing standard, which is commonly used by bloggers and news organizations. Specifically the company is proposing an extension to RSS that will provide support for ordered lists of information.
In his posting yesterday well known blogger Dave Winer said Microsoft now has a team in place specifically focused on the syndication standard and that RSS will likely be taking on a central role in the company's strategy.
"Lists are all over the place, and people are starting to move them around via RSS, and they are not the usual kind of data that has been carried by RSS in the past," Winer wrote. "The people at Microsoft noticed something that I had seen, only peripherally -- that there were applications of RSS that aren't about news. Like Audible's NY Times Best Seller list, or and iTunes music play list, or lists of Sharepoint documents, or browser bookmarks."
Microsoft is expected to make the announcement at the Gnomedex conference being held in Seattle.
"On Friday you'll see how deeply integrated RSS is in the architecture of the browser. But that is just the tip of what may turn out to be a very big iceberg," Winer wrote.
Posted by Ed Scannell on June 23, 2005 02:11 PM
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