2005 May

While I know for a fact some people are going to come unglued with the following news, I personally think it is great to hear that FeedBurner users can easily serve-up Google ads within their RSS content.

As RSS tools and services keep growing in number and complexity, it takes a growing effort to identify interesting new tools from the average, uninteresting stuff that is announced.
Here is my first micro-collection of little known new RSS tools and services that have recently appeared on my radar and which I would strongly suggest to […]

Well, I guess it is about time! Actually, this may not be ‘new news’ to all of you. Still, it is something that I felt was worth a mention anyway. Check it out:

While Jupiter Research seems to believe that RSS adoption is not really simple, a Gartner Group analyst predicts really fast corporate adoption of RSS.

Robin Good asks some difficult questions about how far we can go with RSS advertising. My responses are probably something you wouldn’t expect from an RSS evangelist …

I really can’t say that I did not see this coming. Speaking as someone who dabbled in the world of comic strips himself, I can understand the frustration of not being paid when someone uses your work without permission. But in defense of Tapestry, United (much like most of the mainstream media) still does […]

During my presentation at Syndicate on Wednesday I was finally able to present some hard RSS metrics that show that RSS works. Take a look some metrics from a branded RSS aggregator, an RSS marketing vendor, a publisher and a marketer …

Mobile RSS is still not a hot topic yet, but according to Scott Rogers of FreeRange Communications, mobile RSS is the next RSS wave and the next step in its evolution.

Is there a business case for podcasting? What is it? Will people pay for podcasts? What will that mean for audio quality?

In this interview, Nick explains some background of the deal and also why exactly Newsgator ”went for him”, and also discusses the future of RSS filtering through RSS readers. Actually, he discloses this is the direction they are going in to …

Tig Tillinghast at the Syndicate conference worries that RSS advertising is a huge opportunity for marketers and agencies right now, but he does fear that the industry will only go mainstream in about 3 or 5 years and its acceptance is generally going to be a very slow process.

It is no secret that more and more companies, businesses and Web sites are moving towards content syndication in one way or another. If they are not providing the feeds themselves, then they are giving you a way to read the feeds. So what is it that MSN has up the old proverbial […]

Monetization of RSS seemed to be one of the great buzz-words at the Syndicate conference, with publishers and marketers wondering just how they can monetize their RSS feeds. But why this rush to monetize RSS?

Google just opened AdSense for RSS publishers, allowing them to apply to the program. But, in order to get in, you need more than 100 active subscribers. As if most publishers were doing any kind of RSS metrics …

Today at Syndicate, Tig Tillinghast of MarketingVox, noted how traditional newspaper readership is decreasing, while the ad money this channel is getting is hardly getting any smaller, even though on the other side of the river new popular content media (blogs) are attracting huge numbers of readers. Tig also gives advice on how to get PR placement in blogs.

Bill Flitter of Pheedo has a great post about the best practices for RSS advertising, based on their 18 months of experience in the field and their hard metrics.

Q: What is FeedDemon?
Nick: FeedDemon is the premier desktop RSS
reader for Windows. FeedDemon’s comprehensive feature set has made it a hit
with power users, while those new to RSS have praised its intuitive
interface for making it easy to get started.
Q: How does FeedDemon fit into NewsGator’s plans?
Greg: At the core of NewsGator’s system is
the NewsGator […]

Syndication, RSS, feeds and atom; we have all heard the jargon words thrown around time and time again. Here recently it seems like RSS is picking up steam so I figured it was about time I started to really learn how it works.

MarketingSherpa are usually correct in their internet marketing reports and advice, especially because they base all their findings on hard metrics and work hard to present only the facts. How about their latest report on RSS, titled ‘RSS in Reality: Not a Replacement for Email - Metrics & Best Practices’?

When I noticed that David Berlind, the Executive Editor of ZDNet is speaking on podcasting at the upcoming Syndicate conference, I couldn’t resist inviting him to do an audio interview on the greatest challenges of podcasting …