FeedPass has attention
The new FeedPass service is getting a lot of free publicity. FeedPass is a FeedBurner competitor and will make your RSS feed more manageable. Dave even thinks they should have hing”>asked for permission(?) while Techcrunch lets us know that it does absolutely nothing. Mike explains the service like this:
Feedpass’ value proposition is that they add Google adsense advertisements to the feed landing page (but not into the feed itself), and they will share that revenue with whoever created the feed URL at Feedpass. For example, anyone can create their own TechCrunch feed, distribute it, and get a cut of any adsense revenue generated from it (note that anyone can create a feed on Feedburner from anyone’s RSS, too).
Next to the legal issues for FeedPass, it doesn’t seem to come near the quality of the FeedBurner solution. But it is a sign that RSS is getting more and more airtime these days;)
“…a sign that RSS is getting more and more airtime these days.”
Yes and that is good. Ii is a step in the right direction in that is makes it clear that it is possible to make setting up RSS for others to use (e.g., bunches of feeds on library homepages for the use of patrons) understandable and doable for non-geeks. Anything that prods the RSS community into making things easier for those of us out here who want to educate our patrons and co-workers about RSS is good.
And the appearance of FeedPass has generated some discussion of who owns what on the Internet, which is good for everyone to think about every so often. FeedPass has its uses in terms of generating discussion. Bu it is, like Napster, predicated entirely upon profiting from the intellectual labor of others and that is just plain disgusting and probably wouldn’t hold up in court.
Hope
Wrong. Feedpass is in no way a competitor for Feedburner, and I doubt they see themselves that way or ever set out to be that
Feedpass is simply a landing page service, that’s it. Whether the whole revenue thing is right or not (feels wrong to me) is a whole other question.
I just can’t understand why people are calling them a competitor to Feedburner, that’s crazy talk.