Facebook as Rss Reader?
July 10th, 2009
I love rss as maybe you do. But analyzing stats of many sites I have access to, I noticed that, compared to visits, rss driven traffic is much lower. FeedBurner says Rss users are hundreds (one or two), a very little slice of many hundred thousands visitors per month. If I speak with friends who do not work in/with the web (but often use the internet for personal purposes), and mention Rss, they usually don’t really know what I am speaking about. They might have heard the word “rss” but they think it refers to something that is related to programmers, not just a very useful service. That’s why I though about trying a different way to syndicate web contents: because Really Simple seems not to be simple enough*.
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