RSS Dinner Round-up
May 1, 2006
At Ad:tech we held the second RSS Roundtable. We had a lively crowd with a spectrum of interests in attendence including Publishers, Advertisers, Tool Providers, Press and Ad Networks. A few comments on the show from Rebecca Lieb at ClickZ and Susan Kuchinskas at Internetnews.com & 360techblog provided their thoughts.
Please save the date for our third RSS Roundtable Dinner May 15 at 8:00 pm in New York during the Syndicate Conference. This dinner will take on a more tech focus where the last dinner had more of consumer/advertising focus.
Below are the notes from the dinner in San Francisco April 27. Add your comments as well. We'll pick up the conversation in New York in May. The take-away is, there are a lot of questions around the business of RSS.
Server based aggregators will win in the end - functionality will win.
IE7 --- Gillmor - who cares?
Hard to put new things on the desktop (netnewswire, etc) in the enterprise though, so RSS integration in IE is good for adoption
IE7 might help to just generally raise awareness of what RSS is
Gillmor - Pew study is bogus
People don't need to know what RSS is. RSS will drive adoption.
Once a technology is ingrained in content delivery, becomes part of computers - Cdrom, hard drive. Comes standard once necessary.
Lock in model for RSS - no model yet, but people are trying different ones
Monetizing - putting ads in feeds is good, but if user uses yahoo or google, ads in feeds compete with ads on the page.
CNET has feeds cause they need to do it, but what's the hope? Rather people read content on the web.
ClickZ - not worth selling RSS ads for ad salespeople cause no money there for them and RSS takes away traffic from site which hurts sales too. But same trend with print media/internet.
Converting email to RSS - Is RSS going to integrate into email?
Newsgator - plug in model for IE. RSS experience is so different from email so there will be resistance to integrate them.
Newsgator is too device specific, not ubiquitous
Download and take with you model or EVDO? Rojo gives full mobility.
Attensa: RSS will replace communication in the enterprise. Feeds with ads will be a small amount of traffic. Most will be in the enterprise space.
People are afraid of the revenue stream.
Gillmor does not thing it's "very early" in RSS adoption is very high right now.
Once you go RSS, you don't go back
No difference between and RSS page and a webpage in terms of advertising
Partial feed or full feed? Consumer will go for full feed with ads instead of partial without more control.
Feeds will be capable of more rich media.
"RSS feed reader optimization" --- publishers giving readers what they want to see
Ease of use - Is this the problem with adoption???
Posted by Bill Flitter on May 1, 2006 10:20 AM
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