While RSS and Atom are web syndication methods, with the former being more popular as a syndication method for podcasts, SMIL is potentially useful as a script or playlist that can tie sequential pieces of multimedia together and can then be syndicated through RSS or Atom.

In addition, the combination of multimedia-laden. smil files with RSS or Atom syndication would be useful for accessibility to audio-enabled podcasts by the deaf through Timed Text closed captions, and can also turn multimedia into hypermedia that can be hyperlinked to other linkable audio and video multimedia.

One product of that contentious debate was the creation of an alternative syndication format, Atom, that began in June 2003.

The Atom syndication format, whose creation was in part motivated by a desire to get a clean start free of the issues surrounding RSS, has been adopted as IETF Proposed Standard RFC 4287.

This effectively made the orange square with white radio waves the industry standard for RSS and Atom feeds, replacing the large variety of icons and text that had been used previously to identify syndication data.

Technically, Atom should be considered the more advanced syndication format between the two.

* Simple List Extensions, proposed as an extension to existing syndication technologies such as RSS and Atom to make it easier for clients to support the ordering and filtering of lists

The two main families of web syndication formats are RSS and Atom.

* syndication, using RSS or Atom newsfeeds-external newsfeeds can be displayed in a course, and forums, blogs, and other features can be made available to others as newsfeeds.

The Atom syndication format was published as an IETF proposed standard in RFC 4287 ( December 2005 ), and the Atom Publishing Protocol was published as RFC 5023 ( October 2007 ).

Atom and other web syndication formats are now used for many purposes, including journalism, marketing, bug-reports, or any other activity involving periodic updates or publications.

* Safari RSS — The new Safari 2. 0 web browser in Tiger features a built-in reader for RSS and Atom web syndication that can be accessed easily from an RSS button in the address bar of the web browser window.

* Atom ( standard ), an XML-based Web syndication format

Atom is a web syndication format developed to address perceived deficiencies with the RSS 2. 0 format.

Permalinks have subsequently been exploited for a number of innovations, including link tracing and link trackback in weblogs, and referring to specific weblog entries in RSS or Atom syndication streams

Video logs ( vlogs ) also often take advantage of web syndication to allow for the distribution of video over the Internet using either the RSS or Atom syndication formats, for automatic aggregation and playback on mobile devices and personal computers ( See video podcast ).

: Outside of the enterprise environment, on the other hand, the pub / sub paradigm has proven its scalability to volumes far beyond those of a single data centre, providing Internet-wide distributed messaging through web syndication protocols such as RSS and Atom ( standard ).

; Content syndication: CMS software often assists in content distribution by generating RSS and Atom data feeds to other systems.

* web-broadcast syndication tools ( RSS and Atom )

Four of the 17 entries ( The Ant and the Aardvark, Never Bug an Ant, Scratch a Tiger and Don't Hustle an Ant with Muscle ) appear in their television syndication form, complete with an audible laugh track added by NBC-TV when released on DVD in 2007.

It aired on CBS-TV from 1969 – 1971 before a 20-year run in local syndication.

Like Hee Haw, Lawrence Welk was picked up for syndication in the fall of 1971, and there were some markets where the same station aired both programs.

After the show's syndication run ended, reruns aired on The Nashville Network from 1993 until 1996.

In the United States, Home Improvement started to air in broadcast syndication in September 1995, distributed via Buena Vista Television ( now Disney-ABC Domestic Television ) and continued to be syndicated until 2007 ; in a manner similar to Seinfeld and The Simpsons after they began airing in broadcast syndication, episodes of Home Improvement were not aired in order of their production code number or original airdate.

Xena: Warrior Princess is an American – New Zealand supernatural fantasy adventure series that aired in syndication from September 4, 1995 until June 18, 2001.

Reruns of The Muppet Show aired in syndication for many years and eventually turned up on TNT from the channel's sign-on in 1988 to 1992.

Fox, however, did air a nationally based morning show called Fox After Breakfast ( which was formerly Breakfast Time on Fox's FX cable channel ) between 1996 and 1998, which aired on all affiliates from 9 to 10 am as opposed to the other major networks airing theirs from 7 to 9 am Fox tried its hand again in 2001, at a morning show called Good Day Live, inspired by KTTV's Good Day L. A .— this time in syndication mode.

Nickelodeon originally aired a handful of episodes in edited half-hour form during 1981 as a test run, since producer Roger Price and director Geoffrey Darby had edited the entire 1981 season of You Can't Do That on Television episodes into a half-hour format similar to Whatever Turns You On for national and international syndication.

The show was timed so that two new contestants appeared each Monday ; this was necessary as the tapes of the show were shipped between stations, and weeks could not be aired in any discernible order ( a common syndication practice at the time, known as " bicycling ").

The show aired 230 episodes over six seasons, and remains the longest-running version to air in syndication.

Like its predecessors DuckTales, Chip ' n Dale Rescue Rangers, TaleSpin and Darkwing Duck, Goof Troop was previewed in syndication with a pilot TV movie, which later aired as a multi-part serial during the regular run.

Reruns continued in syndication for several years before disappearing in most markets, but the show has aired on A & E Network, Nick at Nite and TBS network in the United States, and TVtropolis and the Comedy Network in Canada.

Her show aired in syndication until the end of the 1980s.

From Monday, December 10, 1987 through Friday, April 24, 1988, reruns of third season aired in the weekday Punky Brewster first-run syndication package.

In 1991, Disney added another hour ; the block aired in syndication until 1999.

In the 1980s, national TV only aired Saturday mornings, not competing with the weekday and Sunday blocks of syndication aired by local independent stations but ; however, by the 1990s, Fox and then WB started airing weekday afternoon blocks.

The series aired in syndication on BET in 2008.

The pilot episode, " The Looney Beginning ," aired as a prime-time special on CBS on September 14, 1990 ; while the series itself was featured in first-run syndication for the first two seasons.

Dark Shadows originally aired from 1966 to 1971 and has aired in syndication for nearly 40 years.

The program is also distributed to radio stations via syndication by Westwood One, and aired as part of C-SPAN Radio's replay of the Sunday morning talk shows.

However, it also aired in daily syndication in the early 1980s as part of the " Krofft Superstars " package.

Despite the short run of the series, the show continued to be aired extensively through syndication.