Banking on RSS
Martin LaMonica Former Staff writer, CNET News
Martin LaMonica is a senior writer covering green tech and cutting-edge technologies. He joined CNET in 2002 to cover enterprise IT and Web development and was previously executive editor of IT publication InfoWorld.
American Express has started a beta program to offer credit card customers services delivered via RSS.
According to a company questionnaire soliciting beta testers, American Express plans to offer feeds for events, travel and shopping to its customers. Information will be delivered using RSS (Really Simple Syndication) protocol.
RSS is widely used for delivering Web content, notably blog postings, published news articles, and podcasts. But RSS stands to expand beyond that.
Microsoft is building RSS support directly in the Longhorn edition of Windows and expects use to grow substantially.
Can Amex bills delivered to RSS aggregators be far away?