Re: Can someone explain what's so great about RSS?

On Sunday 31 July 2005 22:14, Justin Patrin wrote: > I've been seeing RSS gaining more and more popularity over the last > years and I simply do not understand why. Why is RSS so great? What > does it do that is so great and wonderful? The only thing it seems to > have over anything else is that it's using XMLwith a standardized > format. Other than that, RSS seems to me to be not any more useful > than, say, a daily e-mail with news (or whatever) from whatever you're > getting the RSS from. It's not the implementation of the technology that's great; it's the technology itself, the fact that RSS has become the de-facto standard, and that as a new, almost-standardised technology, it's USEFUL in terms of aggregators, saving people time, and bringing them more information in an easier way. Might seem simple, but that's how progress happens. -- Lee Braiden http://www.DigitalUnleashed.com

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