So exactly what are “startups championing RSS”? Isn’t that a bit like championing TCP/IP, or HTML? Someone please show me what exactly a company based around RSS is?
Hoping to catch the next wave on the Internet, a group of investors has set up a venture capital fund focused on RSS, the technology that allows users to pull selected content from the Web.
Based in Cambridge, Mass., RSS Investors, which was formed last week, seeks to raise $100 million to support startups championing RSS technology. The technology makes it easier for users to automatically receive feeds from different Web sites, including news services, blogs and search engines.
And why that pic, you ask? Searching Google Images for RSS, that’s the first pic that comes up. I think if Dave Winer started using this woman as the face of RSS, people might get a little bit more excited.
