RSS is dead ?

Steve Gillmor

http://techcrunch.com/2009/05/05/rest-in-peace-rss/

RSS changed the way we processed information, by turning search into push and content into people.

My answer to Marshall: I’m not in the news business anymore, but if I were I’d keep Twitter up on screen. I’ve been looking closely at Google Reader’s latest features, Twitter, Facebook, and FriendFeed and I gotta say that most of what shows up on TechMeme shows up in my Twitter feed up to a day earlier. Over the past two weeks I’ve been doing a little experiment: can I outrace TechMeme and TechCrunch and ReadWriteWeb and all the others?

http://scobleizer.com/2009/08/26/rss-interesting-or-boring-hint-marshallk-and-louisgray-were-not-normal/

Robert Scoble

I will tell you that I no longer use Google Reader or Netvibes. Instead, I use open source software on our own servers that is more customizable, more reliable and more efficient.

Marshall Kirkpatrick

http://marshallk.com/if-you-think-rss-is-dead-then-thats-your-loss-and-its-a-big-one

http://www.readwriteweb.com/enterprise/2009/09/rss-isnt-dead-just-ask-executives.php

Steven Walling

Gillmor isn't the only one to confuse RSS with the apps that deliver it. The definition McKinsey provided to execs was "RSS (Really Simple Syndication) is an application that allows people to subscribe to online distributions of news, blogs, podcasts, or other online information." As Winer puts it so well , RSS is how the news flows. But both the public Web and enterprises are using RSS, which is embedded in numerous applications, to do more than just news gathering on items that would be Twitter-worthy. McKinsey Quarterly's survey was conducted online in June of this year, and garnered 1,695 responses from executives working in a wide range of regions and verticals.

I think there is some truth to the assertion that Twitter has replaced feed readers for some people. I have never used a feed reader successfully so it hasn't replaced that for me, but I certainly do use Twitter to find links to news and blog posts that I want to read. But RSS i s way more than the readers it spawned. It is a fundamental part of the Internet architecture and is used for all sorts of things.

http://www.avc.com/a_vc/2009/09/rss-is-alive-and-well.html

Fred Wilson

Dave Winer

http://www.scripting.com/stories/2009/08/26/rssIsHowTheNewsFlows.html

Wednesday, August 26, 2009 by Dave Winer. To Sam Diaz who says RSS was "a good idea at the time but there are better ways now," I have many things to say. 1. People confuse RSS with Google Reader. Let's be clear that there's a difference.

http://www.avc.com/a_vc/2009/09/rss-is-alive-and-well.html#comment-15972026

Venkat

I think there is some truth to the assertion that Twitter has replaced feed readers for some people. I have never used a feed reader successfully so it hasn't replaced that for me, but I certainly do use Twitter to find links to news and blog posts that I want to read. But RSS i s way more than the readers it spawned.

http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/wordpress_just_made_millions_of_blogs_real-time_wi.php

RSSCloud

This is like the difference between checking your email every once in awhile and using a Blackberry to get new emails pushed to you as soon as they arrive. The subscription method of RSSCloud works more like Instant Messaging than the old method of polling feeds for updates each time you fire up your feed reader. Google Reader, the dominant RSS aggregator on the market, began a limited implementation of a related protocol called PubSubHubbub last month.