So I run a large Web 2.0 online feed service for the last 2 years. All of a sudden this year I noticed a LARGE amount of websites supporting this. Do you think this is a trend? What's your RSS feed link?
I'd say RSS is the biggest thing to hit the net in the last 3 years. It puts the user in control, but gives the site owner a way to make his site sticky w/o having to overcome the spam-email objection. Plus, making your content portable means you have plenty of options with regards to mashups and (unfortunately) splogs. RSS is amazing. I love it. 2 of my 10 or so feeds are in my signature. My forum even has a feed and RSS is how I read Digital Point. It's why I end up posting more here than in Webmaster World or other forums. It's just easier to see what you missed in a glance w/RSS. Oops, I'm rambling again. LOL
It's getting popular. One thing that remains true with the 2.0 crowd is they think fun first and money second though. Haven't seen too many monetize their efforts, most seems just for show. Cheers.
Yes it is the biggest factor that can boost your web traffic and let your visitors to come back to your site again. So i will suggest to have this option for every site.
I'm new to this and trying to figure it out. Do you suggest publishing an RSS feed of the site's original content (in hopes that other sites will syndicate/publish it), or parsing other sites' feeds on your pages for additional content? Or both? Thanks.
Mashups are when you take one site and mash it with another to create a great web app. An example is MySchoolTube.com which is YouTube and Facebook. Of course, you also see mashups that are just splogs (ie taking the data from one site to write to another w/o user value). If your mashup doesn't offer anything of value to the user, then it is worthless. I think Yahoo's new portals are nothing less than splogs. However, I reserve the right to change my mind as I learn more about them. From what I've read and previewed, they are just taking content and repurposing it w/no angle except to profit from user gen they didn't create and offering nothing for the original creator.
The only thing I dislike about RSS, as a publisher, is how hard it is to make money from it. I don't want to shut off my users completely from my feed, but I want to be able to atleast make a few bucks off of it. I'm waiting to try to get feedburner ads on mine. I tried yahoo publisher rss ads and didn't make a dime from that.
the future? that so called *future* is already way over. I would say it's something they invented yesterday Pretty scary how fast trends go by online .. Didier
I love rss, I like to put an rss box on my sites, mostly to keep my site fresh with content, especially since I know I won't have the time to constantly update my sites...