The people who came the closest to successfully commercializing RSS (before selling that venture to Google) ultimately came to run Twitter for a few years after

The people who came the closest to successfully commercializing RSS (before selling that venture to Google) ultimately came to run Twitter for a few years after Ev and Biz but before Jack took it back over. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FeedBurner?wprov=sfla1 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FeedBurner?wprov=sfla1 As others have pointed out, web syndication is really cool but it is not a "service" in itself and there are much better mechanisms to build one. RSS is way to communicate website updates and they need to be delivered to a special reader...