Archive for May 1st, 2004

Webfeed: A Better Name for RSS?

Saturday, May 1st, 2004

Amy Gahran held a contest to pick a better name for RSS:
“The point of this contest was not about pleasing the technogeeks of the world, but rather about finding a term suitable for the majority of online users, who are fairly nontechnical.”
Her judges selected “webfeed.”
Steve Outing of Poynter, one of the judges, has some thoughts [...]

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Wired Wonders If the Internet Can Handle Aggregator Traffic

Saturday, May 1st, 2004

Apparently news readers going out and skimming the Web could cause congestion.
“News aggregators may be the best new tools to appear on the Web since the browser, but as the programs and the underlying RSS standard grow more popular, some question whether the Internet will be able to handle the traffic.”
Seen on Garrett’s Rowland Institute [...]

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