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What is rss-extensions.org
RSS is taking the world by storm. And as it marches forward, increasingly many extensions to RSS are proposed to meet special requirements that the general-purpose RSS Specification was never meant to address.
The recent high-profile adoption, with extensions, of RSS by Microsoft and Apple are but two examples of this trend. But how do you know what RSS extensions have been defined already, where they have been defined, and how you can avoid re-inventing what somebody else has created already?
This is the problem this site is meant to solve. If you have or are developing an RSS extension, or know of one that may be of interest to the larger community, please enter it here. That only takes a minute and helps everybody in order to avoid that RSS fragments.
Given how similar RSS and Atom are, the extensions listed on this site are almost always also usable with Atom. "RSS+Atom Extensions.org" wouldn't have been such a good name, however ;-)
List of extensions
Current work
- Access Control for feeds (RSS, Atom, etc.) -- continuation of the in-person work at Mashup Camp
- Activity Streams
Information extensions
- GeoRSS - Geographically Encoded Objects for RSS feeds (OGC GeoRSS)
- Apple iTunes RSS Tags (iTunes)
- Dublin Core in RSS (general-purpose meta-data) (Q: is there an official document that describes how to incorporate Dublin Core elements in RSS?)
- Financial Content (financial/stock extensions)
- GeoCoded RSS (geographic RSS annotations)
- Microsoft Simple List Extensions (lists)
- RSS Traits
- Yahoo Media RSS Extensions
- VocabularyMarket (On ESW Wiki)
- blogChannel
- Creative Commons
- Easy News Topics
- Trackback
- Comment RSS
- Yahoo Maps - RSS extension to overlay icons on a Yahoo Map
- Yahoo Weather RSS Extensions
- Microsoft SharePoint RSS Extensions
- Amazon A9 OpenSearch RSS
- Portable Release XML (PRX) RSS - Press Releases.
- RemoteAds For RSS feeds monetization (used by FeedShow.com)
- RSS-FOAF proposal to incorporate social networking (FOAF) information in RSS.
- vCards over RSS - "vCards over RSS" is a proposed system to allow automatic updates of contact information. So address books on the web and those on the desktop can stay in sync.
- Freecruiter jobsXML RSS- companies can expose their jobs as an RSS feed
- RSSTV - Syndication for TiVo and other PVRs
- Microsoft Simple Sharing Extensions - an attempt to make RSS and OPML bidirectional
- Google Base
- Structured Blogginginitiative
- Tablane Extensions Embed hierarchical structure in RSS feed
- Network Network discribing (also for wireless networks)
- PRISM Publishing Requirements for Industry Standard Metadata -- used by Nature Publishing Group, Ingenta
- Buy.com Product Extensions
- Product RSS extension (generic)
- Company/Corporate RSS Extension Company Information/Disclaimer - draft
- Contact Methods RSS Extension Communication details - draft
- BTRSSX - BitTorrent RSS Extension - Rev. 1.0
- Enhanced Enclosures - Enhanced Enclosures RSS extension
- WikiArticleFeeds - A MediaWiki extension for converting wiki articles into custom feeds (mediawiki.org)
Protocol extensions
- RSS Content Negotiation
- RSS Ping (site updates)
- MetaWeblogApi
- Comment API
- A9/Amazon's OpenSearch (adds conventions for RSS URLs to facilitate search)
- Google Data APIs (beta)
Other related topics
- Syndication Hacks
- Things you can do with RSS (at Tim Yang's Geek Blog)
- Comparing Media RSS formats (from the W3C)
- Extending RSS 2.0 With Namespaces
- Extending RSS
- RSS and Atom: Understanding and Implementing Content Feeds and Syndication
- Namespace Directory for RSS
- Google's list of namespace'd extensions in feeds
