RSS By Any Other Name  Album Cover: Eyes Open  Snow Patrol /
Hands Open  Posted on September 24, 2005 2:18 AM in XML  Last
month geeks were up-in-arms about Microsoft's desision to refer
to RSS feeds as "web feeds" in Internet Explorer 7. Robert
Scoble quickly defended the move, and not surprisingly, so did
Asa Dotzler, calling RSS a "silly name." Asa also raises the
point that RSS feeds are called "Live Bookmarks" in Firefox.  A
month later, the uproar seems to have faded away, but that
doesn't make the topic any less interesting. I have to agree
with Scoble and Asa, simply because RSS isn't the only dog in
the fight. Referring to all feeds as RSS is a bit like referring
to all cola as "Coke." Oh wait, people do that, don't they?
Well, I think you get my point.  It should also be noted that
Microsoft and Mozilla aren't the only ones to put a friendly
label on feeds. Another technology powerhouse you might have
heard of, Google, calls feeds "web clips" in their latest
version of Google Desktop.  You might be