2007 Will Be A Big Year For RSS
by David Peralty on October 11th, 2006 
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Read/Write Web has a post up on how RSS will be big next year. I thought it already was big. With thousands of RSS subscribers to many of the popular blogs, I’d say it is far from small, but I hope its growth continues as it has been, if not more so.
The main things that will bring RSS to the common person include:
1. IE7 from Microsoft + RSS integrated into Outlook 2007.
2. MySpace Widget Platform – potentially a new generation of “RSS Consumers”.
3. Yahoo Mail – RSS integrated in ‘Beta’ version.
4. Google Reader release – RSS reading functionality will probably be integrated into Gmail.
Perhaps the real tipping point for RSS in Microsoft products will be when it is integrated with Outlook, which is slated to happen in Office 2007. As it states on the official Outlook 2007 Overview page:
“Work with RSS Subscriptions from within Office Outlook 2007. You can now fully subscribe to and interact with Really Simple Syndication (RSS) feeds right from Office Outlook 2007, the most natural place to manage this kind of information. It’s easy to get started adding RSS feeds using the RSS Subscriptions home page within Office Outlook 2007.”
Either way, you can’t argue that Microsoft isn’t doing its bit to push RSS into the mass market.
A great article, and a nice in depth look at how things are shifting for RSS. I still think more needs to be done to allow publishers to monetize their feeds, or else they lose some of the reason behind supporting and pushing such a format.
