In the computer world, it seems you can't have a technology without a competing technology, and RSS is no exception. Its main rival is the Atom syndication format.
Atom is the result of dissatisfaction with RSS's genesis, more than with its form. RSS, you see, is not an open standard. Instead, it's controlled by its authors, although it sports a Creative Commons licence. Atom, developed by IBM, is open source. Yahoo! has embraced RSS feeds; Google, through its Blogger software, has opted for Atom.
In fact, it gets even messier. There are three 'strands' of RSS, RSS .9x, 1.x and 2.x, each incompatible with the other. Mark Pilgrim points out in his blog that those three strands contain nine incompatible versions of RSS.
Does it matter? Not really. As a user, your best course of action is to keep your head down and get yourself a multi-format reader which handles multiple forms of RSS and Atom. There are plenty of them available.
Atom is the result of dissatisfaction with RSS's genesis, more than with its form. RSS, you see, is not an open standard. Instead, it's controlled by its authors, although it sports a Creative Commons licence. Atom, developed by IBM, is open source. Yahoo! has embraced RSS feeds; Google, through its Blogger software, has opted for Atom.
In fact, it gets even messier. There are three 'strands' of RSS, RSS .9x, 1.x and 2.x, each incompatible with the other. Mark Pilgrim points out in his blog that those three strands contain nine incompatible versions of RSS.
Does it matter? Not really. As a user, your best course of action is to keep your head down and get yourself a multi-format reader which handles multiple forms of RSS and Atom. There are plenty of them available.
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