RE: [syndication] Advertising/subscription feeds?

[Morbus Iff <morbus@disobey.com>]

>Hmm. I seem to recall asking this same question a few months ago [1], only
>to be publicly and rather snottily spanked by a kid who made an assumption
>without bothering to answer the question [2]. So the whole thread went
>nowhere, unfortunately. :(

Hey! That's my son you're talking about!

>The other alternative is charging for feed access, which sounds fine except
>it can potentially choke out a burgeoning technology before it even gets
>started. Kind of the chicken-and-egg problem: Why build a service that
>generates no revenue, and why advertise on a service that has no viewers?

Welp, I think your question has merit, but if
someone asked me that, I'd answer thusly:

 - if by "building a service" you mean "supplying an RSS",
   then it takes a user all of five minutes to get one
   integrated with their CMS, using any of the 'blogify'
   variants (graciously started by my son, btw).

 - as for advertising on a service with no viewers,
   we need a bit more hard data on this, I agree. I can't
   vouch for any of the other viewers (NewsIsFree, Headline
   Viewer, Peerkat, Radio Userland), but AmphetaDesk has
   been grabbed 14,000 times, been mentioned twice
   on TechTV, been DL of the Day numerous places, and
   so on. The fact that the press seems to like
   this technology and the various aggregators
   (NewsIsFree, Moreover, etc.) suggests that a userbase
   does exist.


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