They're doing it slowly and they put a lot of hype onto it. 'And they're doing the same thing with the web today. 'Google could have done a much nicer job of taking care of RSS, but they didn't do that,' he said. However, Winer's appreciation has limits. 'The truth is that the RSS market was terribly disorganized at the time, and Google did kind of a good thing by organizing it.' 'Nobody saw a downside when Google Reader came in,' he said. Winer gives Google some credit for what the company accomplished with Reader. Waterfox: A Firefox fork that could teach Mozilla a lesson.

Vivaldi email client released 7 years after first announcement.Thunderbird 102 gets a major facelift, Matrix chat support.The GNOME Project is closing all its mailing lists.And in 2021, Google removed RSS feeds from Google Groups. Apple stopped providing RSS for Apple News in 2019. Mozilla removed RSS support from Firefox in 2018. Atom debuted in 2005, a year after the launch of Facebook.īetween the lack of a unified specification and efforts by Facebook, Google, and others to bring people to a single platform rather than send them away, RSS usage has waned. The spec continued to evolve with RSS 1.0, then later again into Atom, a similar XML-based spec. By July, Netscape had rolled out RSS 0.91 and My.UserLand.Com supported it. By April, My.UserLand.Com adopted the tech, and the 2.0b1 format the following month. In March 1999, Netscape launched MyNetscape.Com, using an XML syndication format called RSS 0.9. Other websites adopted what was called the format. In December 1997, Winer started publishing an XML version of his blog, Scripting News. Individuals or services can then subscribe to any of those feeds to keep informed about newly published content. It's an XML-based format that lets websites syndicate their content by publishing RSS feeds. RSS stands for RDF Site Summary, or Really Simple Syndication, or nothing at all, depending upon whom you ask.

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