What are Simple Sharing Extensions?
Simple sharing extensions are a new way to allow applications to communicate bidirectionally with each other using XML based formats like rss and atom. The technology was created by Microsoft to expand the use of Really Simple Syndication among its applications. The sse extensions were developed by Ray Ozzie, Chief Software Architect at Microsoft®, to allow aggregation of information stored in multiple data sources and several formats. The simple sharing extensions project has been re-branded FeedSync® and has been used to bring content from Microsoft, Google® and other sources to many desktops and mobile devices in a simple and streamlined format. Aggregators and other rss capable applications will not need to change drastically to support simple sharing extensions because sse will exist within an item’s rss feed. This allows the applications which support the simple sharing extensions technology to make use of sse when item sharing. The idea behind all of the multiplatform aggregatio
