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March 17th, 2006

34% uses RSS in China!

Wow! I’m moving to China;) The top three (Web 2.0?) services in China are blog, WAP and RSS. It seems that about 34.4 percent of Chinese Internet users use RSS! This was surveyed through 2,689 people on 230 Web sites… Ok, that’s not a big survey but that percentage is really high!
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March 2nd, 2006

New stats on feedburner

Sorry for not updating the site the last few days, I was away and am swimming through my river of feeds right now;) First things first: FeedBurner stats have improved! “There are some new concepts, more detailed visibilty into specific item statistics, and a simpler means of navigating between feed-level and item-level metrics.”
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February 12th, 2006

Some Lessons on RSS Ads

Businessweek has an interesting article about RSS ads. They spoke with Dick Costolo, CEO of Feedburner, and learned that the people who visit a site through a search engine or a link are a different bunch than those who subscribe through an RSS feed. Sounds logical to me, the people searching for specific gadgets like […]

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January 16th, 2006

RSS jobs rising

I read on micropersuasion.com that indeed.com has launched a new feature that enables you to chart the percentage of all jobs that mention a particular word. Jobs with the word RSS have been steadily climbing, with a high peak in September. Anybody knows what was going on in that month?
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December 15th, 2005

Pheedo feed report

Pheedo, “the RSS advertising and analytics experts”, released its second in a series of “Pheed Read” reports, providing RSS publishers, advertisers and users insight into RSS usage patterns. The complete “Pheed Read #2” report is available on Pheedo’s blog but I’ve posted a summary below:

Standalone RSS ads are far more successful than inline ads.
Placing RSS […]

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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 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

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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