“Web Feeds” Still Up For Grabs in IE7 and Vista
Robert Scoble seems to have had a change of heart over RSS. From the Business Blog Summit in San Francisco he questions the use of the term “RSS” after seeming to agree with Dave Winer’s view last week. For the non-aficionado, Dave Winer, often credited with inventing much of the RSS code, believes the clunky engineering term should remain. Scoble appeared to agree with him.
However, now he says : “Everyone who understands the term RSS is at the bleeding edge. The other 97 per cent don’t really understand the term. The issue with Web feeds versus RSS is that the public doesn’t know what RSS is or what Atom is. When you go to different sites it is listed as RSS or sometimes XML or Atom. When you use the term feeds or Web feeds it is easier for people to understand.”
The Microsoft development team is currently using “web feeds” to describe the feature, but won’t say what the final name will be at public release.
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