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Apple News Format and the Custom News Feed

by Ian Rosenwach 6.8.2015

RSS will always hold special place in my heart. The first two web products I built were RSSColumns; an RSS feed aggregator with 1-click RSS subscriptions for your Google Reader or My Yahoo! pages, and a mobile RSS feed aggregator and syndicator called WordTube. (Warning: the sites do not meet modern design standards.) Today Apple announced Apple News Format, a […]

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RSS revisited

by Ian Rosenwach 10.24.2013

Summary: Standard publishing formats are necessary on the web, but as consumer behavior and demands change, the keepers of those standard formats must change with it.  In 2009 I wrote two posts with feedback about RSS (Really Simple Syndication) as a publishing medium. What’s happened since then? Is RSS dead? For whatever reason I was always […]

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RSS should be “unbundled”

by Ian Rosenwach 11.25.2009

Why, as a web Publisher, why can I not easily send an update to my RSS subscribers without publishing a new post? Let’s say I have 700 RSS subscribers, and this is the primary way that people read my content.  Would Publishers find it valuable to be able to send a direct message to these […]

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RSS has the potential to be the worlds biggest micro-content social network

by Ian Rosenwach 9.10.2009

Twitter, Facebook, and other micro-content social networks have a lot in common with RSS. You subscribe to content, be it a friend, Publisher, or a Twitter account. You read it all in a single place. You can unsubscribe. The content comes in snippets. RSS has been around for a while, but maybe we’re missing something. […]

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