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RSS Reaches Out for New Networks

Posted by Zonk on from the nth-dimensional-creature dept.

loid_void writes "The software and services used to read XML-based news feeds are continuing to branch out as the syndication method gains popularity on the Web." From the article: "More and more companies are starting to use internal content distributed in the form of RSS...Having this content delivered internally in a secure manner is really kind of the sweet spot for [enterprises] right now."

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  1. dates! by odyrithm · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I was just working on a simple php script to pull rss feeds but found most sites only give title, link and description details for the items... why no date? seems nuts. /. does provide a date however, the loverly people.

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  2. All sorts of crasy stuff by zkn · · Score: 4, Insightful

    People are also starting to podcast all sorts of crasy stuff, like videos. Making vLogPodcasts. (And screwing up my playlists with videofiles).

    RSS is just another great way of distributing news. Expecially podcasting it with simple programs you just keep running so then down anything new when it arives.

    Internally in companies I can see the usage as a "message of the day" sort of thing where anything everyone needs to se is posted. Instead of cluttering up peoples inboxes it's all gathered a centrel spot and people can update by browsing the RSS feed.

  3. Re:Buzzword Bingo by pohl · · Score: 5, Insightful
    There are things that RSS is NOT good for. Like, sending and receiving email or most forms of office communications.

    I'm not sure I agree with you a hundred percent on your analysis, there, Flexible.

    The point here is not that RSS should be used for sending and receiving email. Rather, the point is that email leads to lots of problems in office communications...too much valuable knowledge ends up scattered in various inboxes, unavailable to the organization as a whole. Or even worse than that, you end up with a bajillion revisions of miscellaneous documents flying around as attachments.

    A much better idea would be to deprecate email as it is currently used, and actually capture intra-office communication in some issue-tracking system, wiki, or other appropriate system.

    Where I work we started doing this with JIRA and Confluence, both of which offer RSS feeds so that you can stay up-to-date on the changes within those systems. The combination is powerful, and I recommend it without hesitation.

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  4. That's kinda weird... by Geniusagar · · Score: 4, Funny

    I got news about RSS in an RSS feed from Slashdot...
    Next I'll be getting an RSS feed about RSS talking about RSS talking about RSS talking about RSS...(infinite loop)

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