September 17, 2010

The Death Of The RSS Reader 
paidContent, Sep. 10, 2010

Are you using an RSS reader? Joseph Tartakoff reports that fewer people are. “Likely to blame is that people are increasingly turning to services like Facebook and Twitter to manage what they read instead of RSS readers.” RSS History: The first Web syndication format to use the name “RSS” appeared in 1999 with the Netscape portal, with other less successful syndication programs starting even earlier.

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