Comments on: The RSS Soundbite

By: http://www.rss-email.net

http://www.rss-email.net — Tue, 24 May 2005 00:25:25 +0000

Well guys, you finally got lucky.

Google and Lycos announced today in the UK they are beta testing RSS eMail and RSS News feeds.

RSS eMail should become mainstream within the next year or less.

Already RSS eMail, RSS eZine, RSS Marketing and RSS Publishing are in use by more than 8% of internet users.

When it hits 10%, the critical growth point will be reached and it will EXPLODE!

Go to www.rss-email.net for RSS eMail and RSS Publishing information now, before it's too late and you are left behind.

Lars

By: www.rss-email.net

www.rss-email.net — Tue, 24 May 2005 00:21:43 +0000

By: Dwight Shih

Dwight Shih — Mon, 09 Jun 2003 16:53:25 +0000

Just don't set expectations too high. I think that the initial success stories will come from email newsletters adding RSS to route around over zealous anti-spam measures. More on today's blog entry.

By: hatch.org : RSS Marketing : Steven Hatch's weblog

hatch.org : RSS Marketing : Steven Hatch's weblog — Sun, 08 Jun 2003 15:35:55 +0000

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By: Greg Reinacker

Greg Reinacker — Sat, 07 Jun 2003 05:47:50 +0000

+1 on we shouldn’t associate RSS with spam in any way, shape, or form.

On the unsubscribe thing, you’re right – it doesn’t work with email. But it seems the problem would be solved with RSS – the user could just unsubscribe from the feed.

On your last point, it’s a good one. :-) I’m not necessarily pushing this idea – just trying to create an interesting discussion…but I’m not sure I see a big downside to it.

By: Taka

Taka — Sat, 07 Jun 2003 01:26:31 +0000

RSS + advertising = inevitable.

However, I'd much rather see it happen a bit later rather than sooner. RSS is still in the process of becoming more widely known and accepted and one guaranteed way to kill it off in peoples minds is to associate it with the taint of spam.

You can "unsubscribe" from mailing lists by blocking the sending address but can you imagine people doing things like that? I can't see them doing it with RSS feeds either.

There are already feeds coming from computer hardware/software review sites, sites pushing books and I'm sure just about everything else. These are already more or less what you described so why go out of your way to explicitly make a link between RSS and advertising? :-)