Standard Deviations - RSS in Longhorn and everywhere (from: PubSub: Scoble)
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Weblog: Standard DeviationsSource: RSS in Longhorn and everywhere
Link: http://www.parand.com/say/index.php/2005/06/24/rss-in-longhorn-and-everywhere/
You’ve probably heard by now: Longhorn will support RSS in a big way. Mr. RSS himself, Dave Winer, is onboard. Scoble is talking about it, and has an MSDN channel 9 interview with demos. They’ve extended RSS to allow for ordered lists. It appears they’ve done this in a reasonable manner, with Winer’s approval.
Not that it’s gone unnoticed, but this is a big deal. This is not about blogs; they’re talking about all kinds of data, from Amazon wishlists to calendars, as RSS. RSS is becoming a native format for storing all sorts of user data, particularly in the windows world.
RSS is nice because it actually sticks to the “simple” in its name, unlike some of our other favourite standards. It’s being extended in easy and sloppy ways, which, if you believe Bosworth and Tim Bray, is a key enabler for success. It’s everywhere; today I found out you can use it for google sitemap.
Bosworth’s talk at SDForum last month was talking about this: a data Web with RSS (or ATOM) as the base format. It was a very interesting vision, and it looks like we’re on our way there.
RSS plus microformats is going to be the base way of exchanging data for most apps in a year or three. If you haven’t tried it out, dive right in, this is a great time. And remember, it’s Really Simple Syndication.