Posts Tagged ‘feeds’

Bank robber Willie Sutton was once asked, “Why do you rob banks?” His reply, “Because that’s where the money is.” The AP is taking the same approach and sending some of it’s Twitter links to Facebook, because that’s where millions of people are.

I think this will be a short term marketing strategy. And even today they started sending people back to the AP site. Using Facebook as an additional outpost is a good idea, but not as a center point.

If you have a domain, use it. That’s where the true riches are.

Related Posts:
* The AP Is Using Twitter To Send People To Facebook. Wait. What? – TechCrunch
* AP is Visionary: They See a “Siteless Web” – Steve Rubel Lifestream

Today, WordPress deployed a new functionality called RSS Cloud to its 7.5 million blogs on WordPress.com. This allows people to get notification of blog feeds as soon as they are published.

That’s awesome, Dude! Uh, so, er, what is RSS?
RSS, or Really Simple Syndication, is a way for blogs to share their content with others via a feed. Typically, people don’t want to look at the raw formatted content so they will subscribe to this content via an RSS reader, like Google Reader.

Ok, so my blog has had and RSS feed on it forever. What’s changed?
Wordpress.com blogs still have an RSS feed but now it includes information about a “cloud” item. The cloud gets and passes along information about the new blog post as soon as it has been published.

This is the difference between going to the bakery every hour to see if there are fresh bagels and having someone stand at the bakery then calling you when they are fresh out of the oven. The person standing at the bakery is the RSS Cloud in this metaphor.

If you’d like more information on the tech details and implementation of RSS Cloud and the RSS specification you should definitely tune into Dave Winer’s recent blog post (he helped shape the RSS landscape).

Related Posts

- ReadWriteWeb

- Scobleizer

- Mashable

Alex Shiels, presenter at Word Camp Australia 2008, recently announced a new feature for WordPress.com users – Readomattic.

Readomattic is feed reader tool located within the WordPress.com admin section. It launched minutes ago and allows users to track their favorite feeds base on:

1. Top Blog Posts by category
2. Tags
3. Blog (WordPress.com only)
4. Twitter feeds by username

This new WordPress.com tool can help users focus in on key feeds to help generate blog post ideas, organize feeds, and keep track of what’s going on in within their radar.

See what WordCamp Austrailia tweeters said about the Readomattic announcement.

Screenshot of the Readomattic panel for WordPress.com.