According the the Associated Press(AP), "e-mail is crippled, concussed by an irrepressible spam stream. Web surfing can be equally confounding, a wobbly wade through bursts of pop-ups and loudmouthed video ads.
And that may explain the excitement these days over a somewhat crude but nifty software tool that automatically delivers updated information to your computer directly from your favorite Web sites.
Enthusiasts see these Web feeds as sketching the outline of the next Net revolution.
The technology behind them is called RSS and I rely on it daily to consult The New York Times, the BBC, CNET News, Slashdot and a few dozen other Web sites that employ RSS to make the very latest news stories or bits of commentary available for the plucking."
The RSS (aka newsfeeds) is catching on everywhere. The AP article points out that information generators of all sorts - big media, government and non-profits alike - are embracing them. A popular newsfeed site Syndicat8.com, added 7,326 in January - its biggest monthly jump - to its collection of more than 53,000 information streams.
It is predicted that 2004 will be the year the technology goes mainstream.
Find out more:
AP Article
Introduction to RSS
RSS Tutorial for Publishers & Webmasters
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