Why RSS matters
Why RSS matters
A better way to track websites that beats any social network
Newsify (Free, IAPs,
newsify.co) even has an Apple Watch version, when you want your RSS on your wrist.
RSS apps for Mac, such as NetNewsWire, often take advantage of extra space with multi-column views.
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he origins of RSS go back to the early days of the popular internet. Various efforts were made to build web syndication systems. The one that stuck was Really Simple Syndication (aka RSS). By 1999, the first version was in the wild. Because of its open nature and simplicity, RSS enabled any web-based resource to publish items that RSS readers could then interpret and display.
Over time, it became a way for all kinds of information to be distributed, including news headlines, blog posts and podcasts. Early web portals were driven by RSS. An ecosystem of RSS services and apps sprang up, as creators and outlets alike aimed to capitalise on the technology. Users could ‘subscribe’ to as many feeds as they liked, knowing they’d never miss an article from favourite websites – without having to constantly visit them.