Microsoft published an extension for RSS and OPML: Simple Sharing Extension . The SSE specification is licensed under CC Attribution-ShareAlike License 2.5.
Its usage model looks to me the SSE is targeting mutual syncing and subscription amongs publishers (websites/blogs). There is more interaction could be imagined with introduction of sx:sharing, sx:related, sx:sync. I didn’t see anything get it more content-rich, would it matter for more data exchange among publishers? Would more interaction helps web growth? The success of protocol always depending on its stability, widely-spread and stable. Licensing SSE under CC doesn’t necessary make it stable or widely adapted, it’s at least sounds encouraging though.
We have Atom being developed over 2 years. How far would SSE go?
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