Well, isn't quick and dirty just what RSS is? I always have >10000 unread
posts in my reader and skim whatever ones I find interesting for the day.
It's also a lot faster to load the rss reader than all the blogs. A time
saver.
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Personally I never got my head into RSS-feeds...it's ugly and I always end up with hundreds of unread posts...not my thing. I want it quick n dirty. :P
I think the most interesting thing is how such inventions as Twitter and RSS changes peoples behaviors and drives new opertunities for new inventions. It is clear that all services with the purpose to give the user a tailormade value and the chance to collaborate and perticipate is rewarded and considered as a succes today.
I believe that microblogging sites and interactive RSS feeds such as Twitter will continued to be the number one networks for interactions and the traditional RSS feed will work as a fast and tailored tool to educate us, and the user brings the knowledge to microblogging sites such as Twitter for futher discustions.
I it is likely that Twitter soon is going to be used as some kind of Webinar. Webinars have been used during a couple of years and was predicted by marketers and the early adopters to boom in the end of 2008.
Webinars can be seen as an extension of the Twitter phenomenon. The differences are many but the overall idea is the same to give its audience a chance to perticipate and collaborate instantly. Witch makes Webinars the perfect tool for advertisers and companies to use in times like these. Or maybe we should call it "Recession marketing".
During my time at Isobar I attended to my first webinar ever, I took take part in a debate about "How UK companies are generating business leads" and was impressed about how smooth everything was managed. By using the VOIP technology the event was hosted by a moderator and two guest speakers, during the event you had the chance to perticipate in short surveys witch the result was shown to you immediately. Webinar is the new way of making a web conferance playfull. Check it out for yourself!
I use RSS but not Twitter (yet, I have to say…) or any other microblogging technic and RSS works fine with me. But I can see the benefits when it comes to fast news if you use Twitter or such and follow a lot of users. Still I see Twitter as a complement to RSS, since there are two great things working fine together.
My rss feed is well organized, plenty of links in different categories. I know what posts I have read and those posts I don´t. When it comes to Twitter, I subscribe on people with common interests, a music artist I like or somehing else that drives my attention. All subscriptions on Twitter becomes one giant uncategorized feed that keeps me on top of the information and I can also interact with people, unlike a feed reader. But at the same time it also gives me a bunch of stuff in the Twitter feed that don´t interest me. So I try to pick out the best from my Twitter feed.
So what I mean about Twitter beeing a extension to my rss feed is that I can get the latest news, interact with like-minded people, find information I don´t get on my rss feed and sometimes find blogs that is good enough to qualify on my rss feed through Twitter.
hmmm my friends I see as 2 different things. I have noticed that I am starting to understand twitter a little better... The rss is good if it is embedded, I think it is me but I really can't read the ugly rss feeds! but I found a different reader so I am all good.
Manne your rss - feed explain... And since I am not a nerd I can't comment on certain people.
I think they're different things. I think RSS will be around for a long time, but that doesn't mean that something could be built on top of twitter and a rss reader. What if you could have a twitter sidebar in google reader to comment/pull out others comments on the same item?
I just can't see twitter replacing RSS (for the things that RSS works well for).
But, as the article says twitter can be better for really fast news delivery. But for me that's a moot point. It's the kind of news I don't use RSS for. I tend to go to the newspaper to skim headlines instead, RSS sucks for that kind of reading (since I won't get any indication of how important a story is). My twitter network has yet to break any big news to me (it isn't huge). I don't think that the casual user will ever have a network that big to be able to rely on it for news delivery. But it can be fairly effective for live coverage of an event (I'm following the pirate bay trial that way).
I like RSS feeds and I don't think the comparison to Twitter is highly relevant. Mostly because Twitter is a brand and RSS is a "technology". In principal Twitter could be based on RSS feeds (I haven't analyzed the Twit-technology).
I think the power of RSS lies in the opportunities of XML and easily being able to remix your own data stream. A thing like Yahoo Pipes wouldn't be possible without RSS. It's - to me - just a way of making websites easier to understand for other websites.
I'm a big fan of feeds, but still I haven't found the perfect tool for it. Maybe Twitter will be the answer, it's definitely an important channel for news which we discovered lately. Personally I have to be more "friend" with Twitter and really use its full potential, in the meantime i use the old fashioned way of RSS (with no interaction with the sender) ;)
Might be so. Seems like more and more magazines, news etc are teaming up with a Twitter account to spread the word. Personally I like it better since you actually might be able to interact with them if they add you as well. Which they should of course. If you're interested in them they should be that as well. In you that is.
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