Is RSS Dead?
@thebigk
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Oct 25, 2024
Oct 25, 2024
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RSS aka Rich Site Summary or Really Simple Syndication - the standard web format has been with us since 1999 when it was developed by Dan Libby and Ramanathan V. Guha at Netscape - two engineers working at Netscape. The first version that went out to public was 0.9 and since then it's evolved a lot. The major drive to adoption of RSS came when Google decided to launch the Google Reader in 2005 - the service that would let you collect feeds from various sources and then read them at a single place. Today Google announced that they're killing the Google Reader because though the program has loyal audience, the usage has declined significantly over the past few months.
RSS solved one major problem for users - they no longer had to log on to each website to read the latest content. Google Reader, through RSS feeds offered a single place where people could get content delivered from their favorite sources at a single place - which provide to be a great time saver.
The news of Google shutting down their RSS reader service came as a shocker to the loyal followers of the service and I see debates mushrooming on the Internet whether the RSS format is dead? Technically, the RSS files are basically plain-text files with the XML formatting. The format even gave birth to a several small products called as 'feed readers' - on desktops, mobiles and tablets.
I'm aware that shutting down of Google Reader service cannot be equated with the death of RSS. However, it could just be the start of the doom for RSS. Would love to have your thoughts on whether RSS is dead?
RSS solved one major problem for users - they no longer had to log on to each website to read the latest content. Google Reader, through RSS feeds offered a single place where people could get content delivered from their favorite sources at a single place - which provide to be a great time saver.
The news of Google shutting down their RSS reader service came as a shocker to the loyal followers of the service and I see debates mushrooming on the Internet whether the RSS format is dead? Technically, the RSS files are basically plain-text files with the XML formatting. The format even gave birth to a several small products called as 'feed readers' - on desktops, mobiles and tablets.
I'm aware that shutting down of Google Reader service cannot be equated with the death of RSS. However, it could just be the start of the doom for RSS. Would love to have your thoughts on whether RSS is dead?
