One of the most exciting news RSS-wise this month , among other things, is NewsGator products can now be obtained for free. Tris at MapleLeaf 2.0 adequately and passionately covered the news on NewsGator consumer products in his post: NewsGator consumer products now all free–now you have no excuse not to use them. Web Worker […]
Bloggers everywhere woke up to a nice surprise. Their feed statistics jumped overnight! How did this happen? Google is finally reporting FeedBurner statistics. Finally? Yes - they didn’t used to report numbers to Feedburner so the statistics were skewed on the downside. Bloggers could only guess what the number might be and no one had […]
ITNews Australia reports that RSS for checking blogs still hasn’t caught on.
HitWise researcher LeeAnn Prescott said a comparison of traffic to online newsreaders and the Web’s most popular blogs indicates that only early adopters are using the newsreaders.
The typical US Internet user has yet to adopt Web-based newsreaders for checking blogs, a Web metrics firm […]
Nielsen//NetRatings announced yesterday that broadband users are 3x more likely to use RSS over narrow-band users. The “Research” indicated that broadband users are more likely to make better use of Internet functionalities and newer technologies, such as RSS feeds and blogging. Not very shocking conclusions you might think, but just like Bill Flitter writes, it […]
Simone Carletti from the RSS world in Italy has created a script to get your FeedBurner stats in any RSS reader! It uses the FeedBurner Awareness API. His quickstart is here and an example is here (via lineofsite). Now why didn’t Feedburner think of that?
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Pheedo has released their “Pheed Read #3” report, the complete report can be downloaded here (PDF). The most important findings include:
Consumers Remaining Within Aggregator / News Reader Environment To View RSS Content
Full-Text Feeds and Summary Feeds Garner Similar Click-Through Rates
Summary Feed CTR Varies Widely
Most Publishers Opt for Summary Feeds
Bloglines and MyYahoo! Lead RSS Content Aggregators
Standalone […]
Track your referrers with ReefeRSS! It’s a new analytic tool for your site and you can track your referers via RSS, now that I think about it I really like the idea. If you own a site or blog you always wanna know where your visitors come from. The more info the better! Now you […]
AdAge Interactive Fact Pack (PDF via micropersuasion): 78% of RSS feed users are male!
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One of the things I love about RSS is that it’s simple, clean and quick. I dont really care if there’s advertising in a feed (or on a site), as long as it’s relevant and the content is good! Size and relevancy are very important, so don’t create ads that oversize the content…
A few weeks […]
The JaK Attack! published it’s tenth podcast yesterday and it features an interview with Eric Olson (yup, the VentureWeek podcaster when he’s not busy burning feeds) and Traci Hailpern from Feedburner. They talk about stats, forwarding, browser friendly feeds, FeedFlare (API’s), BuzzBoost and other cool stuff. Check it out if ya like feeds;)
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