40 percent of Britons online use RSS
Forty percent of Britons online say they receive automatic news feeds to their browser or desktop. Exciting number we got here. It means Internet users are more and more depends on feeds as the syndication technology for consuming content.
The sad fact is, 69 percent of Britons online have never […]

RealNetworks launches RSS readers
RealNetworks announced something that’s a departure from their video/audio offering — RealTime, a hybrid desktop/browser system for reading Web-based feeds.
RealTime can be used purely on the Web as an online feed reader, but it also has the Windows desktop client counterpart.
When RSS aggregators become ad networks
Steve Rubel predicts that RSS will venture […]

Attention Profiling Mark-up Language (APML) is a new standard that is being worked on to convert the rought foundation about personal attention profile into agreed standard.
According to the site, APML will allows users to export and use their own personal Attention Profile in much the same way that OPML alows them to export their reading […]

Six Apart acquires Rojo Networks
Six Apart, blogging software and service company, has acquired RSS newsreader Rojo Networks. No terms were disclosed but it was estimated that the deal is less than $5 million. They are going to take Rojo’s RSS infrastructure and build it into Vox and Livejournal.
A peek inside TechCrunch’s 100k subscriber milestone
TechCrunch’s RSS […]

One of America’s major direct marketers has a new value proposition “Get Information How You Want, When You Want.” Yes, Amex has adopted RSS as part of their online direct marketing efforts.
Rebecca Lieb of ClickZ opined that such an adoption is a big win for syndication fans. American Express is a big influencer, so others […]