RSS growing at 1% a day
Posted by unbrand on 14 January 2005 | 2 Comments
Cool analysis of trends in the RSS world. RSS has made my information-gathering much more efficient than when browsing websites. In fact, I rarely use browser bookmarks now and I spend most of my web browsing time inside of NetNewsWire. This is a big shift and time saver for me because I used to feel lucky to hit each of the sites I read once a day. Now I can be much more selective and check more sites more often by dealing purely at a headline basis.
Burning Questions – The Official FeedBurner Weblog: RSS Market Share
January 10, 2005
RSS Market Share
There has been much discussion and lively debate in the blogosphere and other spheres of note lately regarding RSS traffic and aggregator market share. Since our job is to help publishers understand how their feed is being consumed in as accurate a way possible, we’ve decided to make our own understanding of traffic patterns and market share public. As with any micro-report like this, there will be much gnashing of teeth and waving of hands, and in the end, this is just as likely to confuse as many people as it helps. Transparency can only assist the discussion, however, so here we go.
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Of the feeds that we currently manage, in aggregate, RSS circulation is growing by about 1% every weekday.