<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> videobloggers might be more inclined to care about rss.
> i don't think it's particularly important to large
> numbers of video uploaders though...not yet, anyway.
Just look at what the normal user experience is... A user sees only a
small orange button that says "RSS" or "XML" or the square radio wave
icon. None of those are obvious to an RSS virgin. Most people browse
with IE, so even when they do get curious and click the icon, they are
taken to a page that is just code (hieroglyphics to most).
It is an absolutely horrible user experience. Where does it tell the
user to download an aggregator? How do they know to copy/paste the
URL into the aggregator?
I've been a web developer for 10 years and I was completely baffled
the first time I tried to use RSS. (Granted, that was when Bloglines
first came out and few sites had a feed.)
As for the video uploaders, "most" are using YouTube and/or MySpace.
Both those sites don't promote their feeds very well, which I think is
a sorry attempt to horde content. They rely on advertising, which
means they want people to visit the site and not syndicate it in an
aggregator.
I assume RSS adoption will increase when the masses upgrade to Vista.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/windowsvista/reference/rss/
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