Web syndication

Web syndication is a form of syndication in which a section of a website is made available for other sites to use. This could be simply by licensing the content so other people can use it, but more commonly these days web syndication refers to making Web feeds available from a site so other people can display an updating list of content from it (for example one's latest forum postings, etc.). This originated with news and blog sites but is increasingly used to syndicate any information.

Although the format could be HTML or JavaScript, it is more commonly XML. Considerable discussion about the right format has lead to RSS, which has several parallel versions, and more recent attempts produced the new Atom web syndication format and protocol.

See also

• News aggregator
• Creative Commons