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Scoble is right about RSS and blogging - this is why I agree

Scoble states it as it is:

“Here’s my thesis: companies that have lots of bloggers will end up making better products, will end up having better marketing and PR, will end up making more profit at the end of the day, and will be more likely to have more than one “hit product” and will be more likely to last 100s of years.”

Scoble is right, this is why I agree:

Feedback. Without feedback, any product design decision is at best a guess. Guessing what the customer needs will only get you so far. Actually listening and understanding what the wants and giving it to them will get you a lot further.

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Feeds are there for long. Last day, I blogged about Omea Reader. I found myself writing that I was using it more than my email client. The first thing I now open when I wakeup is this: my feed reader.

I have the power, as you said, to have the information I want. I subscribe to feeds I want to ear about. If what he said didn’t reach me, than I unsubscribe.

I now realize that people talk to me trough my weblog. If it’s more personal, they send me an email also trough it.

If people didn’t want to see feeds for what they are, see their possibilities, than this is their problems; they will eventually open their eyes.

But I also think that it’s an healthy comportment to discuss, and find flaws in concepts and systems like feeds.

It’s a new technology after all…

Maxthon joins the RSS sidebar party

Right now Maxthon is my tabbed browser of choice – it’s slick, rock-solid, and uses the IE6 rendering engine for maximum compatibility. Most importantly, it’s being updated at a feverish pace that would put a pack of crazed weasels to shame […]

The only problem I see with this new RSS side tool is that he didn’t remember which item you have read(if you select another category and come back at the old one, the grayed items will be put back in yellow). Following this little problem there is no way to make all as read.

Otherwise Maxthon is a rock solid browser and the generated layout to display your feeds is classic and really well done.

About broken feeds

Fred on Something talks about the reasons why so many websites and bloggers don’t entirely syndicate their contents.
The consequences of this behaviour are admirably shown in Fred’s post. I would like to add another: if you haven’t got a flat fair connection, broken feeds are completely useless or - worse - expensive. Most of domestic internet users in this world are in these conditions, and having to re-connect a lot of times to continue the reading of a post is a good reason to immediately unsubscribe that post.

Just a pair of considerations:
Approximatively, there are three kind of websites: amateur (like this blog), commercial and both these two things. Right? […]

I was opposed to adds in feeds. But if it the price to pay to have a complete feed, then, I’m ready to pay it. Think about it: you are refreshing all your feed; you are ready to leave the airport with your tablet PC. You are seated and ready to read all of them, you have 12 hours in front of you. What do you find? You find that there are just snippets of posts… This is not good for air rage.