RSS from anything

RSS widest use so far has been to deliver news to the readers, but the format (specially RSS 2.0 with its simple namespace extension) is enough flexible to allow a far wider range of applications. It’s easy to see uses anytime or anywhere there is a flow of information that is produced and is to be aggregated and consumed and such application are starting to spread.
For instance Spanning Salesforce (link via D.Winer) is a service that builds RSS feeds out of interesting data lists in a Salesforce application.

But there’s more: RSS has shown that there are ways to make systems work together in a simple but effective way. The whole point of RSS, said Jim Moore is to make connecting systems together so easy that users can do it themselves, without any help from system managers or vendors.