Editing UserLand Software (section)

===RSS===
{{main|RSS}}

RSS (Really Simple Syndication) is a family of [[Web feed]] formats used to publish frequently updated works—such as blog entries, news headlines, audio, and video—in a standardized format.<ref>{{cite web
 | url= http://my.netscape.com/publish/formats/rss-spec-0.91.html
 | title=RSS 0.91 Spec, revision 3 | author=Libby, Dan
 | date=July 10, 1999 |publisher=[[Netscape|Netscape Communications]]
 | access-date=February 14, 2007
 | archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20001204093600/http://my.netscape.com/publish/formats/rss-spec-0.91.html
 | archive-date= December 4, 2000 }}</ref> An RSS document (which is called a "feed", "web feed",<ref name="GuardWF">
  "Web feeds | RSS | The Guardian | guardian.co.uk",
  ''The Guardian'', London, 2008, webpage:
  [https://www.theguardian.com/webfeeds GuardianUK-webfeeds].
</ref> or "channel") includes full or summarized text, plus [[metadata]] such as publishing dates and authorship.

Between 1999 and 2003, UserLand contributed various versions of the RSS specification. For an overview of the process see the [[History of web syndication technology]].

Using RSS, UserLand also ran one of the first Web aggregators, My.UserLand.Com, which allowed users to follow numerous weblogs from a single web page.

Userland's RSS advocacy led them to develop RSS feeds for the [[New York Times]] company.<ref>[http://backend.userland.com/2003/06/16 Accessing the NY Times archive through their RSS feeds – Backend.Userland.Com]</ref> The original feeds used a variation on standard RSS, and the feeds were only publicized to UserLand Radio bloggers.