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November 2005

November 28, 2005

posted by raj in RSS Marketing

According to Mark Taylor of iMedia Connection (links below), "just as PVRs have revolutionized TV viewing, RSS is set to transform the way we use the net. Unlike TiVo, though, it also represents transformational opportunities for marketers who use it wisely."

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November 25, 2005

posted by raj in RSS Marketing

One way to promote your RSS Feeds is to incorporate it into your main website and draw attention to it with teaser messages. Feedburner's BuzzBoost is one service that helps you do this.

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November 24, 2005

posted by raj in RSS General

Microsoft has proposed a set of extensions to RSS 2.0, even though the standard has been closed. Their intent is to allow the cross-feed sharing of content items. Do we really need these extensions, or is Microsoft just throwing their weight around?

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November 15, 2005

posted by raj in RSS Development

JST (Javascript Synthesis Technology) is a brilliant new way to develop web applications, whether you are an experienced programmer or just dabble. It just might be the platform we all need to build web feed apps that'll catalyze the widespread use of RSS.

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November 4, 2005

posted by raj in RSS General

Rok and I had an email discussion recently regarding the RSS vs Atom debate. I maintain that RSS is a better, more robust format. Rok says that from a marketing point of view, "no one cares whether its Atom or RSS, and most offer both". Do you agree?

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posted by raj in RSS Development

Bonafide genius Marc Andreesen, co-creator of the first Netscape browser, recently released his social networking application builder, Ning.com. For newbies to RSS development, this just may be a leg up for creating web applications - complete with maps and databases - with automatically generated RSS feeds. And you don't even have to be an experienced programmer.

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November 2, 2005

posted by raj in RSS Development

One of the complaints I've heard about RSS is that RSS Reader software keeps multiple feeds in separate folders. Very few RSS Readers behave as, say, an Email Reader application does. The application that can take multiple RSS feeds and dovetail the items, ordered by increasing age, will likely be a "killer application" the will help popularize RSS among content consumers.

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posted by raj in RSS Marketing

While the Internet publishing uses of RSS are essentially limitless, it remains more of a background, less-visible technology than HTML. This may mean that the adoption of RSS will take much longer than us RSS evangelists are hoping for. What can be done to change this, to increase the adoption rate?

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posted by raj in RSS Marketing

While researching the long tail phenomenon of consumption of electronic content, it struck me that the reverse of this phenomenon applies to the adoption of RSS/Atom/web feeds.

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