Comments on: Long Live the RSS Reader! http://www.markevanstech.com/2008/12/05/long-live-the-rss-reader/ Thoughts on Startups, Entrepreneurs and the Web Thu, 09 Feb 2012 17:25:18 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: RSS is the most powerful free tool in business. We bet you don’t use it! Here’s what it is | Increasing workplace productivity http://www.markevanstech.com/2008/12/05/long-live-the-rss-reader/comment-page-1/#comment-166949 RSS is the most powerful free tool in business. We bet you don’t use it! Here’s what it is | Increasing workplace productivity Thu, 19 Mar 2009 17:07:26 +0000 http://www.markevanstech.com/?p=4319#comment-166949 [...] Long Live the RSS Reader! [...] [...] Long Live the RSS Reader! [...]

]]> By: Melanie Baker http://www.markevanstech.com/2008/12/05/long-live-the-rss-reader/comment-page-1/#comment-146348 Melanie Baker Fri, 05 Dec 2008 21:44:13 +0000 http://www.markevanstech.com/?p=4319#comment-146348 I don't think RSS readers are ever going to be mass-adopted (and I include specific apps like Google Reader, widget-driven info aggregation sites/apps like Netvibes, and others in that). I think there'll always be plenty of people who simply don't have information overload, and/or prefer to manage their information in other ways. Like <a href="http://www.fastforwardblog.com/2008/12/01/the-uncertain-future-of-blogging/" rel="nofollow">Jevon's post</a> from the other day, I think RSS, like blogs, may evolve to fit into the media landscape differently in the future. Certainly one thing we agree on here at AideRSS is that RSS's future is likely somewhat invisible to the average person. Millions of people keep track of their friends' comings and goings on Facebook... with no idea that it's an RSS feed. I think the seamless integration of RSS into more and different aspects of the media landscape has a bright and very flexible future (more so than, say, standalone readers). And, of course, our goal is that eventually no one will know or remember that RSS ever existed without PostRank built in. :) I don’t think RSS readers are ever going to be mass-adopted (and I include specific apps like Google Reader, widget-driven info aggregation sites/apps like Netvibes, and others in that).

I think there’ll always be plenty of people who simply don’t have information overload, and/or prefer to manage their information in other ways.

Like Jevon’s post from the other day, I think RSS, like blogs, may evolve to fit into the media landscape differently in the future.

Certainly one thing we agree on here at AideRSS is that RSS’s future is likely somewhat invisible to the average person. Millions of people keep track of their friends’ comings and goings on Facebook… with no idea that it’s an RSS feed. I think the seamless integration of RSS into more and different aspects of the media landscape has a bright and very flexible future (more so than, say, standalone readers).

And, of course, our goal is that eventually no one will know or remember that RSS ever existed without PostRank built in. :)

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