RSS: Internet 2.0?

USA Today: http://www.usatoday.com/tech/webguide/internetlife/2004-02-27-web-feeds_x.htm

E-mail is crippled, concussed by an irrepressible spam stream. Web surfing can be equally confounding, a wobbly wade through bursts of pop-ups and loudmouthed video ads.

And that may explain the excitement these days over a somewhat crude but nifty software tool that automatically delivers updated information to your computer directly from your favorite Web sites.

Enthusiasts see these Web feeds as sketching the outline of the next Net revolution.

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RSS has been called the TiVo of the Web, the first “killer app” of the anticipated automation of social and commercial transactions online using the Web’s second-generation XML (extensible markup language) standard.

Forbes.com http://www.forbes.com/personaltech/2004/02/23/cx_ah_0223tentech.html

But the potential goes much further than simply making life easier for obsessive Web surfers. It turns out that RSS feeds are searchable and that many bloggers like publishing their own RSS feeds because it can help boost readership numbers. That's exactly what Feedster.com is all about. The company recently demonstrated its ability to search through the content of RSS feeds at the Demo 2004 conference in Arizona.