Prediction on RSS in 2006

A lot of speculation about the role RSS will play in 2006 (see previous post). Jason Calcanis (Weblogs Inc) has some predictions for next year, on #11: “Half of the indie RSS readers will shut down, go out of business, or just stagnate as the major portals take over this space.” And on #11b: “No RSS readers will be bought in 2006 because every major buyer has already built one.”
Well, I do agree that there is but a small future for offline RSS readers. When Outlook comes to town they will have a very difficult time!

More predictions as John Battelle writes in his list, on #12: “It will be a long year of head scratching and simmering disputes in the “content creation” business as the major platforms shift strategy on RSS, in particular, and blogging, broadly. In other words, we won’t get nearly as much accomplished as we hoped. At issue is how content creators export their business model through RSS aggregation platforms. Near the end of the year, though, there will be a breakthrough deal that clarifies business model standards in the RSS space.”