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Yahoo released a white paper on RSS usage, and the findings are similar to other surveys in recent time. According to Yahoo approx 4% of total internet users are actually use RSS.
Nielsen NetRatings in New York recently reported that RSS users significantly read more online news than non RSS users, visiting an average of 10.6 news sites compared with 3.4 news sites for non users.
RSS Feeds Marketing by Travel Giant Travelocity. RSS feeds are beginning to popup all over the place which provide businesses a really new way to market customers. Take a look at Travelocity’s new RSS Feed for promotions. The page allows users to customise their RSS feed for particular routes. For example you could create a feed which shows all the discounted flights between Los Angeles and New York.
For most people who use personal computers, RSS feeds continue to remain the unknown. However Microsoft’s Michael Affronti program manager on the Microsoft Outlook 12 development team is out to change this in the upcoming release of Outlook. Michael discusses RSS and how interacting with RSS feeds will be extremely similar to managing your mail items now. The integration of RSS into Outlook 12 will have a dramatic effect on RSS use worldwide as Microsoft Outlook is probably the most used application in the world after Internet Explorer.
Google has added both RSS and Atom feeds to their popular aggregated news service Google News. There are a handful of predetermined RSS feeds for popular topics like entertainment, sports or businesses; however users can create keyword driven RSS feeds.
Why RSS advertising? Users are subscribing to RSS Feeds thick and fast - making RSS advertisements easy to track and effective in enabling organisations to measure success. It’s reasonably low-cost and can generate higher click-through rates than most forms of online advertising.
Sad as it is, RSS failed because you probably don’t know what it is.
The team at Wiliam though it would be great to publish these ideas in order to get people thinking about adding RSS as part of their ongoing web strategy. Software developers such as Microsoft have really embraced RSS and as such has incorporated functionality in both Outlook 12 and Internet Explorer 7 which are slated for public release later this year.
One of the first Web 2.0 styled applications that has the capability to improve our social networking lives has arrived - The Blog RSS Feed Reader.
Wiliam'st Facebook Application, called the Blog RSS Feed Reader now supports multi-feeds.
Like a newspaper or magazine gathers articles for readers, Internet denizens have taken to using programs that collect dynamic content of their favourite sites. This allows them to do create a single page that scans a list of websites to either previews fresh content or even provide entire articles.
Readers who subscribe to your website’s RSS feed are not just opting in to its updates, they are self-identifying their interest in your company. By tracking this list, you are building an invaluable list of contacts. Here are 10 reasons you should activate one for your new corporate website...
Once you get into the habit of subscribing the number of feeds quickly starts to build up. Then there is just not enough time to read all the information.
We are always on the look out for innovative ways companies are using web technologies. We recently came across a very useful tool that allows you to see all domain names that are expiring.
PubSubHubbub is a simple, open, server-to-server web-hook-based pubsub (publish/subscribe) protocol as an extension to Atom and RSS.
The former independent federal member for Wills, Phil Cleary is now the voice of the Australian Electrical Trade Union podcast. Launched last month, the union’s podcast was designed to unite workers. “Podcasting is just a great way to communicate with our members” says Phil Cleary.
If you maintain a website, blog, or other content source that can be syndicated via RSS feeds then you have probably kept a watch on the number of subscribers your content has at a given time. There’s little doubt that no matter how many subscribers you have presently, you can always use more.
In today’s fast paced society you often have but one opportunity to catch a reader’s attention. On the Internet this truth is further complicated by the overwhelming amount of information continually presented.
Hootsuite is a no-brainer when it comes to making your website talk to your social networks.
Vince from our web development team noticed that our Facebook Application was being used by Daft Punk.
Technologies such as AJAX, REST and RSS form the technical underpinnings of Web 2.0, the term used to characterize the next generation of Web applications.
Some effective website improvements that you can consider adding to your site which aim to retain users of your site and hopefully generate positive word of mouth that will see referrals to your website increase.
Good blogs update their content at least once a day, and great blogs even more often - or so it might seem. But the truth is that it is quality more than quantity that builds and keeps a blog audience.
BBC in the UK will shortly be undertaking one of the world’s largest online marketing campaigns ever to promote their website www.bbcnews.com. The campaign and will use live RSS Feeds from the BBC news site and link them in with Instant Messenger services such as MSN Messenger and ICQ. The concept is that if an important news article is published, it will immediately be featured in the rich media ads.
What is the current goal of your website? For some, it is to increase the conversion rate. For websites that sell advertising on a CPM (Click Per Thousand) basis, the goal is to increase the number of impressions per user.
Video content provides that fresh, interactive experience visitors are looking for. Additionally, video adds a lot more punch to promotions and marketing campaigns.
As one of just a handful of Australian few web agencies specialising in Facebook Application development our technologies team were glad to see this morning’s announcement by Facebook that they will be opening up the platform even further.
Wiliam was a-buzz this afternoon when a great article about our web design company and Managing Director- Robert Beerworth, was published on SmartCompany.com.au.
As a great selling point, organisations can use a creative, cleverly marketed video package to demonstrate and display your product or service. Optimised content entices users to your web site and increase the average time spent browsing your web site.
What I consider important items to review before launching a new website. If you get through this list and you survive, you should get yourself a drink as you are ready to launch!
We are starting to see a convergance between Content Management Systems such as Sitedock and Blog systems such as Wordpress driven by a need to leverage social networking to achieve a greater market share.
During a pitch meeting last week, the client who we were pitching for was shocked that not everyone who arrives to their websites comes via the homepage.
Web 2.0 is the business revolution that is making the World Wide Web the platform for information sharing, collaboration and creativity. As businesses look to make this evolution a reality, spending is expected to reach nearly US$5 billion by 2013 on social networking tools.
Microsoft has launched a toolbar for IE7 (backwards compatible with IE6), designed for web developers. At first glance, it's a good effort and worth the download.
More than 50 percent of Facebook users return to the site each day, providing unparalleled distribution potential for applications and the opportunity to build a business that is highly relevant to people’s lives. Undoubtly creating your own business branded Facebook Application is an extremely powerful online marketing commodity.
When you create a property with one of these keywords it has a special action associated with it.
Continuing on from my last blog about why you should be including video as part of your online marketing strategy today we will look at the different types of streaming you could do. I’m always excited when a client asks about video streaming and the options that can be used.
Many people have more than one social media account out there. With so many services offering different features and/or geared towards different facets of your life why restrict yourself to just one.
In an unexpected and somewhat surprising move Google has removed a home page optimized for the iPhone and is instead routing these users to a general mobile page.
Database development is a significant part of contemporary web design and development. Web sites that contain significant functionality – such as membership profiles and dynamic personalisation – often require data-design know-how.