Opera today introduced a new browser that integrates RSS reading capabilities. Users can subscribe to feeds and have new items arrive regularly as individual messages in Opera's mail client, which is packaged with the browser.
AP says "The decision by a major browser maker to include RSS is a sign of the technology's rapid adoption."
RSS has clearly passed the tipping point. Everyone I show it to leaves with their mouths open wide. However, it still needs to get a lot easier to use before it becomes a technology a grandma can love. How much longer will it be before Microsoft buys and dumbs down Newsgator or Feeddemon and integrates the technology into XPSP3 or Longhorn? Or before AOL, Google or Yahoo! buys Bloglines and throws ads into the mix? Not long.
