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Archive for December 2005

December 12th, 2005

RSS users make more money!

RSS users are newsjunkies, we do know that much… But did you know that RSS users make more money? Yep, in a demographics survey of RSS users and non-users, published by Ipsos Insight and Yahoo! (PDF) the average income of an average Internet user was estimated at $62,655. Meanwhile, those who use RSS and are […]

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December 10th, 2005

SSE: Simple Sharing Extensions

Since a few weeks the term SSE is getting really hot. But what is it exactly? First post about SSE was from Ray Ozzie, he wrote about “the RSS of synchronization”. They created an RSS extension that we refer to as Simple Sharing Extensions (SSE). In just a few weeks time, several Microsoft product […]

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December 9th, 2005

RSS Toilet paper

A crazy new product out of Taiwan seems to be aimed at the feed dependent of us out here. The ‘rsstroom reader’ is a bathroom gadget that prints news feeds onto your toilet paper!!! That’s right! The best part is the “biometrics” toilet seat that’ll figure out who you are based on your weight and […]

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December 9th, 2005

Google Mail also adds RSS

Google has a cure for the inbox! Among other features, Google has now added a RSS reader into its Gmail service. Starting this week, you can see headlines from your favorite blogs and news sites right above your Inbox. The feature is called Gmail Clips (A clip is born?).
Ok, everybody knows that this was coming […]

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December 8th, 2005

Where to get your RSS statistics

Measuring and tracking RSS is becoming more and more important. Especially for marketers it is very interesting how many subscribers there are, with which readers they read and how many click-throughs are generated. As far as I know there are three big players in the stats-market at this moment: Feedburner, Pheedo and SyndicateIQ.
FeedBurner is probably […]

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December 8th, 2005

RSS users are newsjunkies

RSS users are visiting an average of 10.6 news sites compared with 3.4 news sites for non-users, according to Nielsen//NetRatings. That´s three times as many news websites as non-RSS users. Assuming that a lot of RSS users I know are bloggers or newsjunkes, that could be correct!
In total RSS users are but a small group, […]

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December 7th, 2005

RSS startup gets $9 million

This Monday it was announced that a $9-million investment was made in Attensa, a software company developing a web syndication or RSS network. Attensa spokesperson Scott Niesen said RSS Investors ponied up $5 million, with the remainder coming from SmartForest Ventures and other smaller early investors. Attensa and RSS Investors said the technology can help […]

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December 7th, 2005

Sites without RSS can go ahead and pack!

Scott Gatz writes: by the end of 2006, all content on the web will be available in a subscribable format (RSS, Atom, whatever). Well, i hope so! But it seems that all tech companies alone, only 4 out of 32 are offering their news, press releases, etc via RSS…

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December 6th, 2005

RSS at Les Blogs 2.0

The Les Blogs 2.0 conference, which started in Paris yesterday, has an interesting panel about RSS. This panel will discuss the best ways to use RSS, both to publish and subscribe to information. The moderator of this panel, Elizabeth Albrycht, has begun with questioning the audience how many feeds they read. There’s a group of […]

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December 6th, 2005

What is RSS Hijacking?

RSS hijacking is different from domain hijacking. Most podcasters/bloggers are not technically savvy, and the technique used for hijacking their feeds doesn’t involve swiping passwords or overt illegal methods. Rather, it merely involves finding a target weblog or podcast (podjacking), and creating your own unique URL for it on a website you control. You then […]

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