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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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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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 people are predicting a bandwidth crunch as RSS usage accelerates. Already, I've heard stories from people of how subscribers to their RSS feeds have pushed their bandwidth usage up so high that they either have to pay huge amounts for extra bandwidth or take the feeds offline. What can we do to stave off...
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"One name to rule them all, one name to find them, one name to aggregate them all and in our vocabulary bind them." Now that RSS isn't the only game in town (or should I say, now that the people creating new formats aren't calling them all "RSS"), syndication formats need a single name with...
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Some of the variants of the little orange XML button use more subdued colors. For example, I've seen blue "RSS" buttons. That raises the question, is the orange button too loud? Does it yell, "I am the most important part of this webpage"? Does it detract from site design? Nah, I don't think so. I...
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Yesterday I decided to make a logo for Info Bite. After a bunch of doodling on paper, I came up with the five balls logo that you see here. Here's an excerpt from the Info Bite List homepage: The five balls in the logo represent five bites of information. They are arranged to represent a...
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I read a post at webproworld.com yesterday questioning the wisdom of forking Atom off of RSS "at a time when e-mail seems to be loosing its traction." Is having multiple standards a bad thing? Not necessarily, I think. From my response: An analogy to elucidate my point of view on the subject is this: In...
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