Jeremy Allaire notes that there have been over 10,000 sightings of RSS “web services” spotted in the wild:
As I’ve been reading and writing today I’ve come to a somewhat obvious conclusion: there’s been an explosion of ‘web services’ in the past year, and it has nothing to do with SOAP, WSDL and such standards as described in the industry but with the ascending role of RSS and RDF as XML data and syndication formats.
Jeremy has a point. Another interesting tidbit from his post:
Today’s count of RSS feeds from Syndic8.com: 10408 feeds
Today’s count of SOAP APIs from xMethods.com: 275 APIs
That’s a huge difference.