Big Companies Taking over RSS

Michael Gartenberg | July 23, 2007, 12:39 PM

Scoble talks about how the bog companies are taking over RSS.

But, what really is cooking here is that RSS has been moved to big companies to control. How so? Well, the RSS Advisory board, which includes members from Cisco, Yahoo, Netscape, FeedBurner (er, Google), Microsoft, and Bloglines and this new unofficial board +is+ changing the RSS spec all the time (they are now up to version 2.0.9.

This is not a surprise and in fact, it's something that I said was likely to happen in 2003, except it's not just MSFT, it's a whole group of folks. I agree that it's likely to be a mess and the folks who will get burned the most will be users. It's time to leave this thing alone and to adhere to the original charter of the RSS advisory board.