Understanding XML: How RSS/Atom Is Replacing Web Services

Understanding XML: How RSS/Atom Is Replacing Web Services: "I had one of those odd little epiphany moments (maybe my meds ran out) as I was looking through the list of Firefox extensions that there were any number of stock tickers there. This by itself is obvious - stock tickers and RSS go together like Apache and Perl, but then it occurred to me that the canonical example of SOAP based web services has been the stock market quote, practically from the very beginning of the whole web services game."