SiliconValleyWatcher reports on a brand new VC fund totally devoted to investments in RSS (Really Simple Syndication), the syndication technology that has been made so popular with the advent of blogging. RSS Investors has been launched with $100 million to finance startups "championing RSS-related technologies, including news aggregation, blogs and new classes of search engines". RSS Investors will not only examine startups using RSS for news aggregation, but also "RSS applications that aggregate data, particularly in the financial and medical industries".

It is great to see this story unfold - RSS could very much be the next big core Internet technology (as the article itself points out, it is a "push-me, pull-me" mechanism - neither e-mail nor web page, but having characteristics of both).  More importantly, I believe that the next wave is for applications that manage RSS feeds (for instance, performing searches on key words and routing news feeds containing those words to a mailbox address - where the results could be displayed in an e-mail formatted in HTML with the original links or with a brand new document containing the original text and graphics).  And after that, content-based routing, as envisioned by Solace Systems.