Archive for February, 2007
February 22, 2007 at 2:51 pm
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Burning Questions • FeedBurner’s View of the Feed Market
FeedBurner on Google Reader and more…
While it’s always encouraging to see feed subscription numbers go up (Google’s recent inclusion of subscription data for Google Reader and Google Homepage increased the number of feed subscriptions FeedBurner can report to publishers by 53% alone), these subscription numbers in a vacuum only tell part of the story. Equally important is the extent to which people are reading feeds and interacting with them. In today’s post we’ll take a look at one aspect of the feed aggregator market – the web-based aggregators – and draw some conclusions about how audiences are consuming content in new and different ways. There are obviously many other feed-reading clients we could discuss (e.g. email, widgets, desktop aggregators, etc.), and we’ll tackle those in future posts.
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February 22, 2007 at 2:49 pm
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February 22, 2007 at 10:29 am
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February 22, 2007 at 10:12 am
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February 21, 2007 at 11:11 pm
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February 21, 2007 at 11:06 pm
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Netvibes Promises Cross-Platform Widget Compatibility – techcrunch.com
Netvibes announces as code it once, play it anywhere widget platform. TC has a good write up.
The fragmentation of widget platforms presents a problem for developers, who need to develop and then maintain different versions of widgets for the various desktop widget platforms (Vista, Mac, Google, Yahoo) as well as online platforms like Pageflakes and Netvibes (and lots of others).
The W3C has a working draft of a 1.0 Widget specification, which if adopted would make life easier for developers by requiring some standardization. However, the best solution for everyone would be a world where a widget works on every platform, no matter where it was originally created.
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February 19, 2007 at 9:27 pm
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XM, Sirius to merge – Feb. 19, 2007
XM and Sirius finally merge. Mel gets the CEO job.
XM Satellite Radio Holdings Inc. and Sirius Satellite Radio announced Monday they would enter into a merger of equals, creating a satellite radio giant. As part of the deal, XM Chairman Gary Parsons would remain chairman of the combined firm, while Sirius’ Mel Karmazin would assume the role of CEO. XM chief executive Hugh Panero will remain as CEO until the merger is completed.
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February 16, 2007 at 9:50 pm
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RED HERRING | Google Agrees to Buy Adscape
With Microsoft and Google both in the in-game advertising space expect to see real growth here.
Google has made a foray into in-game advertising for video games with an agreement to acquire Adscape Media for $23 million, sources familiar with the matter said Thursday.
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February 16, 2007 at 5:18 pm
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Official Google Reader Blog: One subscriber, two subscribers, three…
This is good news. I think the Google Reader is the best currently on the market and I’m very interested to see if it;s driving RSS adaptation as of late.
Publishers have been asking us to report the number of users that are subscribed to their feeds in Google Reader. This is something we’ve been wanting to do for a while, but with all the products that use feeds at Google, corralling the data in one place was like herding cats. So herd we did, and as of today, our crawler reports the number of Google users subscribed to the feed. The count includes subscribers from Google Reader and the Google Personalized Homepage, and in the future may include other Google products that support feeds.
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February 16, 2007 at 11:05 am
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