Continuing my four-part series on revenue models for data bite formats, today I'll discuss factors likely to affect our acceptance or rejection of them. Will we accept it? Advertising is probably the most controversial revenue-related issue facing data bite formats today. But of course, revenue is not all about advertising. Developers may sell their tools,...
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Stopping spam once the floodgates are open is much more difficult than keeping it from starting in the first place. How does one avoid getting their email address into the hands of spammers? Only show your email address to people who need it. Email is useless if no one knows your address, but it also...
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In yesterday's opening of a discussion of revenue models for data bite formats, I pointed out that tool developers and publishers have a strong incentive to use their tools and feeds to generate revenue. Today the next question: Where will they get it? Developers have three potential revenue streams: software sales, software support and advertising....
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Bloggers are using RSS and other data bite formats in droves. But if RSS is to be the next wave to sweep the rest internet, there'll need to be a revenue model to support it. I don't mean to say that no revenue model means death to data bite, but clearly, if there is a...
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Following up on yesterday's post, there may be one more place to forward your spam. If you have a system where the sender uses a form on your website to send messages, you have the opportunity to record the IP address from which they accessed your site. Then, you can look up the ISP who...
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Bloggers and news sites are the main publishers of RSS and Atom feeds today, but if data bite formats are to be the next wave to sweep the internet, they'll need to be used more widely. Where will the wave take us, and how can we prepare for the ride? Many of the answers will...
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We've covered a bit of what not to do when you get spam previously--don't click the links. Today, let's talk about what you should do when you receive spam. Most of the time, just deleting it is probably the best thing to do--don't let other people waste your time. But sometimes, you may want to...
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I did a little more brainstorming on the idea of a name for talking about RSS, Atom, Info Bite, etc. all at once. Here are the results: What does "syndication" mean? From the Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary: "Syndicate, verb ... a: to sell (as a cartoon) to a syndicate [syndicate, noun: "a business concern that sells...
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With RSS and similar technologies in their current state, publishers run the risk of using significantly more bandwidth than with an email newsletter. Why? Let's say you have a list with 20000 subscribers. If you email them all a 2K newsletter once a day, that's 40MB/day of bandwidth. If you have an RSS feed with...
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Many techniques are used for spam filtering: searching for user-specified words or phrases, statistical analysis of text, etc. One of the oldest involves creating a black list of sender email addresses from which all messages are blocked. Spammers have long since learned to work around blacklists by changing their addresses often and even using fake...
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