Comments on: e-commerce and rss http://cleverhack.com/2005/10/12/e-commerce-and-rss/ Technology, Startups, Internet Marketing Sat, 11 Feb 2012 00:37:22 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.2 by: colson http://cleverhack.com/2005/10/12/e-commerce-and-rss/#comment-9737 Fri, 21 Oct 2005 04:15:43 +0000 http://cleverhack.com/2005/10/12/e-commerce-and-rss/#comment-9737 But maybe more importantly they are looking at it the exact same way that the above posters are. Look beyond just reaching the consumer. Look at reaching a large breed of search engines such as Shopping.com or Froogle with a unified and standardized platform. I think there is plenty of untapped potential in RSS beyond just reaching the consumers via direct methods. I just don't think anyone has come up with the easiest method to extract the value from syndication. But maybe more importantly they are looking at it the exact same way that the above posters are. Look beyond just reaching the consumer. Look at reaching a large breed of search engines such as Shopping.com or Froogle with a unified and standardized platform. I think there is plenty of untapped potential in RSS beyond just reaching the consumers via direct methods. I just don’t think anyone has come up with the easiest method to extract the value from syndication.

]]> by: me http://cleverhack.com/2005/10/12/e-commerce-and-rss/#comment-9463 Thu, 13 Oct 2005 18:55:13 +0000 http://cleverhack.com/2005/10/12/e-commerce-and-rss/#comment-9463 i don't buy it. i don’t buy it.

]]> by: fluffy http://cleverhack.com/2005/10/12/e-commerce-and-rss/#comment-9444 Thu, 13 Oct 2005 04:09:41 +0000 http://cleverhack.com/2005/10/12/e-commerce-and-rss/#comment-9444 Fortunately, Firefox and Safari both support it in ways that people who are interested in subscribing to a page know it's subscribable. Unfortunately, business people don't see the value in this, and so it's probably pretty hard for engineers who do see the value to convince higher-ups that it's worth spending the couple of hours for making an RSS view for, say, recommended product feeds or whatever. Fortunately, Firefox and Safari both support it in ways that people who are interested in subscribing to a page know it’s subscribable. Unfortunately, business people don’t see the value in this, and so it’s probably pretty hard for engineers who do see the value to convince higher-ups that it’s worth spending the couple of hours for making an RSS view for, say, recommended product feeds or whatever.

]]> by: Mitch http://cleverhack.com/2005/10/12/e-commerce-and-rss/#comment-9443 Thu, 13 Oct 2005 02:13:41 +0000 http://cleverhack.com/2005/10/12/e-commerce-and-rss/#comment-9443 Yahoo recently published a report that touched on user-awareness of RSS feeds and related technologies. A depressing 12% of sampled users knew about RSS, and only an even more depressing 4% had knowingly used RSS. My guess is that they don't see the point of investing in such a system if so few people are going to utilize it. Report can be found here: http://publisher.yahoo.com/rss/RSS_whitePaper1004.pdf Yahoo recently published a report that touched on user-awareness of RSS feeds and related technologies. A depressing 12% of sampled users knew about RSS, and only an even more depressing 4% had knowingly used RSS.

My guess is that they don’t see the point of investing in such a system if so few people are going to utilize it.

Report can be found here:
http://publisher.yahoo.com/rss/RSS_whitePaper1004.pdf

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