RSS Is a Label We Don't Need to See: "In making RSS part of IE 7, Microsoft gave the feature a friendly name, 'Web feeds,' which describes what the user sees much better than RSS, the sort of name only a developer could love. "
I think this is true. The letters RSS scare the crap out of most people, even when I tell them what it stands for. Trying to explain that it is only a format for XML complicates the discussion even more."After Microsoft started calling RSS feeds "Web feeds," Google followed suit, using the term "feeds." Firefox uses the term "live bookmarks."
Seems like everyone wants to call it something different. How does this affect the site owners? Should we list our RSS links as Web Feeds/Feeds/Live Bookmarks/News Feeds/XML???? WTF? Pick a freakin name that everyone will use and move on. Why couldn't Google and Firefox follow suit, using the same generic name? Everyone wants to be special...I wouldn't be surprised if someone tried to trademark on of those names.