Really Simple Syndication

Online content licensing and syndication allow web publishers to distribute and sell their content to multiple audiences, networks, as well as to traditional media outlets. In an age where online content is increasingly spreading in contexts different than the original source, understanding all the options at stake and their pros and cons is absolutely crucial for any web publisher. Photo credit: Laurin Rinder With almost 1 billion people...  

Following the launch of its syndication scheme in October, citizen journalism site Allvoices has signed a deal with WENN (World Entertainment and News Network), which provides images, videos and other entertainment news to more than 1,000 partners. WENN will now have exclusive syndication rights to all entertainment-related content uploaded by Allvoices’ users and allow its partners [...]  

As part of its promise to highlight who’s benefiting from all the linking done to newspaper articles across the web, the Fair Syndication Consortium says that in a recent 30-day period, more than 75,000 sites “reused” a newspaper article without sharing ad revenue with the original source. Of those sites, which the FSC describes as “unlicensed” to use the content, there were 112,000 “near-exact” copies of newspaper content. Not surprisingly...  

After the success of the Future of Social Media webinar Dr. Rachna Jain and I held this past October, we realized many people still had questions about using social media effectively to build influence, credibility, and visibility. The two areas participants asked about most frequently were content creation and syndication. People seem to be wondering what kind of content, and how much content to produce, and then, also, how to distribute...  

Etelos, Inc (OTCBB:ETLO), a developer and operator of private-labeled marketplaces for Web-based business applications, announced that NetDocuments, a leading provider of SaaS content management, has become an Etelos Syndication Partner.  

Etelos, Inc. (OTCBB:ETLO), a developer and operator of private-labeled marketplaces for Web-based business applications, announced that NetDocuments, a leading provider of SaaS content management, has become read more  

Here at PointAbout, we love RSS because it helps you build great apps yourself! Here’s what RSS does, in plain English. AppMakr compiles your existing RSS feeds into a tidy little app with graphics and icons you customize yourself. This can be done in under a minute, with the option to purchase the ...  

The business of syndicating video across a broad distribution network is interesting – but I can’t imagine there is a very large slice of revenues available to this sort of middle man.  I guess the key is getting big fast: 5min how-to and lifestyle videos struck syndication deals with The Style Network and G4 cable networks. 5min will [...]  

I don’t really care if RSS becomes a generic brand name for content syndication, just like “Kleenex” has for tissues. I think it is fine if engineers recommend to their directors, “we should support RSS in our applications. Content syndication is what our customers want.” Though it might be a good idea to add “well, we’re actually building it using Atom. It’s the same thing, only a little better, and we can still speak RSS with people who need...  

The web isn’t about pages any more. Now it’s about streams, feeds and syndication. As part of our annual Best of Series, below are our picks for the most important RSS and Syndication Technologies of 2009. You can see last year’s list here and most of those remain important services. Only one servic ...  

Now branching out in to e-books after recently marking its first birthday Tina Brown’s Daily Beast is starting to syndicate its webzine content out through third-party destinations.The IAC-backed current affairs zine has just inked deals to publish through MSN in the U.S. and UK with further agreements with Yahoo NSDQ YHOO Roadrunner and Comcast NSDQ CMCSA anticipated soon.  

RSS (most commonly translated as "Really Simple Syndication" but sometimes "Rich Site Summary")...RSS formats are specified using XML, a generic specification for the creation of data formats....The RSS reader checks the user's subscribed feeds regularly for new work, downloads any updates that it finds, and provides a user interface to monitor and read t he feeds....The user subscribes to a feed by entering into the reader the feed's URI or...  

As part of its promise to highlight who’s benefiting from all the linking done to newspaper articles across the web the Fair Syndication Consortium says that in a recent 30-day period more than 75000 sites “reused” a newspaper article without sharing ad revenue with the original source. Of those sites which the FSC describes as “unlicensed” to use the content there were 112000 “near-exact” copies of newspaper...