RSS at Les Blogs 2.0
The Les Blogs 2.0 conference, which started in Paris yesterday, has an interesting panel about RSS. This panel will discuss the best ways to use RSS, both to publish and subscribe to information. The moderator of this panel, Elizabeth Albrycht, has begun with questioning the audience how many feeds they read. There’s a group of people who read less than 100 feeds but the biggest part said to read between 100 and 250 feeds. A few people were reading over 500 feeds (via lesblogs.web-log.nl).
The other day Robert Scoble was telling that he has 743 feeds in his feedreader… Dutchman Marco Derksen (known from marketingfacts.nl) raises and tells he has over 2000 feeds he follows. Anybody wanna top that?
Conclusion of the panel discussion:
- Subscribing to feeds will be different. With the introduction of IE7 (legacy?) and Windows Vista there will be a lot of people that don’t even know that they’re using feeds. So this weblog will become obsolete;)
- OPML will be very important, concerning localisation and automatic translation of RSS feeds
- Individual Live RSS: relevante content (adds) around rss feeds
- RSS feeds wil generate more content, for example different feeds being combined to one new feed (All Google blogs in one feed).
What about RSS hijacking?
- Technically you can stop it (ids and authentification)
- We must not spread passwords via OPML files (duh!)
