Thursday, January 29, 2004

> Jeremy Zawodny: In all the discussion of Orkut I've seen so far, most folks are busy comparing Orkut to every other social networking web site around, typically they mention Friendster ("it's so much faster!"), but as we all know these sites are a dime a dozen these days. At least it seems that way. What surprises me is that nobody has looked at it the other way around: What problems might Orkut solve that Google would otherwise find significantly more challenging?
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> Rogers Cadenhead: Publishers who use RSS should take a look at how Trillian Pro users are checking your newsfeeds. Trillian Pro is an instant messaging client for Windows that can be extended with plug-ins to support other kinds of information. There's a popular RSS 0.9x plug-in. The software breaks the once-per-hour standard adopted by most RSS readers, but I haven't determined yet if this is by default or set by each user. One of my RSS feeds is being checked by a Trillian Pro user twice an hour. Another feed is being checked every five minutes -- 264 times a day. It won't take many users like that before it becomes a problem.
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> Don Park: Commercial interest in RSS seems to be heating up. I was intrigued by the domain name (pheedo.com) of one of the commenters (Bill Flitter) to the Ads in Feeds and OEM News Aggregators posts, so I looked up and found this:
Pheedo provides comprehensive solutions to help publishers maximize revenue from content syndication including RSS and ATOM formats.
Maybe Bill Flitter can talk a bit about his (Portland-based?) company and what it's about. Bill?
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