The Glue Between RSS Readers + Blog Platforms
I'm working alot on the glue between segments in the RSS industry (i thought i needed to start using terms like 'industry' and 'segment' to confer some type of rationality), and anyway I'm wondering why the blog platform players (six-vox, spaces, blogspot, myspace) are not more closely integrated with RSS Readers, ala bloglines, rojo, newsgator etc. (and the RSS Readers are not smart enough at search, browse, personalise)
What am I missing ? When most people blog, they do link to something do they not ? Or would like to ? If it was easier ? I'm really interested in this, so please stoopid ideas will be listened to for at least 4 uninterrupted seconds.
Self proclaimed Purple Cow Marketers like Seth Godin, talk about marketing being about solving consumer problems; Inch wide mile deep systemic deep uncovered pains preferably (extra points if you get consumers when they are most vulnerable etc)
To me blogging, the pain as a newbie or semi-literate typist is you need to find a piece of "data" to blog about, dig into it's properties like the URL, cutnpaste a selection of text and/or other media, upload an image, remember to credit the whole trail of sources linking to the story (becomes like an Oscars speach)
Then once in the blog platform you need to click on this stupid hyperlink icon which im sure newbies have no idea about cutnpaste into the body, attribution, etc. It's not till about Masters level at Uni they teach you how to pedantically source material. And PHD students Im sure must think Masters are like superweak NDynamites ;)
The fledgling nature of the metablogpodvidverse is why The Scoble left A Microsoft - Microsoft's products are just too complex and dont know which problems they are solving, and in what order. And Donnie Brasco wanted more Tony Soprano turf. So back to Berkeley (kidding) and surroundings for Adam Curry's new doppleganger (I wonder if Scoble will do much planepodcasting as they reinvent the Podshow business model ! Note to blogging self : get plane before i sellout - isnt it funny the new version of selling out is to leave a big company for a small one...am I off topic enough yet for you...)
Blogging platforms, RSS readers, Blog search to me are the same thing. Not that Im giving guidance, blogs are just a great outlet to "air" ones grievances :) In a local sense at least, Im definitely sure there is a gap between RSS Search-RSS Reader-Blog Platform.
(Note : I liked this graph from Comscore re MySpace, which (credit to :) Anniversary Arrington linked to that i screengrabbed, uploaded to flickr, then blogged it, then linked it etc aaagh. It shows how many minutes users spend on portals and how frequently they visit. Then there are some pretty colours and soccerballs of different sizes.
The green of facebook might show why they knocked back $1.4B from Yahoo looking for Cuban dough, and the pink of MySpace is pretty frky.
Facebook are punting that in the GEMAYA battle the green soccergirl will make some of the large cap public Co's eventually bite - I'm sure the founders are like sell already and the VC's are playing a very high stakes game of chicken with Web 2.0 and the University FaceBook Social Networking Rites of Passage...) Next.
What am I missing ? When most people blog, they do link to something do they not ? Or would like to ? If it was easier ? I'm really interested in this, so please stoopid ideas will be listened to for at least 4 uninterrupted seconds.
Self proclaimed Purple Cow Marketers like Seth Godin, talk about marketing being about solving consumer problems; Inch wide mile deep systemic deep uncovered pains preferably (extra points if you get consumers when they are most vulnerable etc)
To me blogging, the pain as a newbie or semi-literate typist is you need to find a piece of "data" to blog about, dig into it's properties like the URL, cutnpaste a selection of text and/or other media, upload an image, remember to credit the whole trail of sources linking to the story (becomes like an Oscars speach)
Then once in the blog platform you need to click on this stupid hyperlink icon which im sure newbies have no idea about cutnpaste into the body, attribution, etc. It's not till about Masters level at Uni they teach you how to pedantically source material. And PHD students Im sure must think Masters are like superweak NDynamites ;)
The fledgling nature of the metablogpodvidverse is why The Scoble left A Microsoft - Microsoft's products are just too complex and dont know which problems they are solving, and in what order. And Donnie Brasco wanted more Tony Soprano turf. So back to Berkeley (kidding) and surroundings for Adam Curry's new doppleganger (I wonder if Scoble will do much planepodcasting as they reinvent the Podshow business model ! Note to blogging self : get plane before i sellout - isnt it funny the new version of selling out is to leave a big company for a small one...am I off topic enough yet for you...)
Blogging platforms, RSS readers, Blog search to me are the same thing. Not that Im giving guidance, blogs are just a great outlet to "air" ones grievances :) In a local sense at least, Im definitely sure there is a gap between RSS Search-RSS Reader-Blog Platform.
(Note : I liked this graph from Comscore re MySpace, which (credit to :) Anniversary Arrington linked to that i screengrabbed, uploaded to flickr, then blogged it, then linked it etc aaagh. It shows how many minutes users spend on portals and how frequently they visit. Then there are some pretty colours and soccerballs of different sizes.
The green of facebook might show why they knocked back $1.4B from Yahoo looking for Cuban dough, and the pink of MySpace is pretty frky.
Facebook are punting that in the GEMAYA battle the green soccergirl will make some of the large cap public Co's eventually bite - I'm sure the founders are like sell already and the VC's are playing a very high stakes game of chicken with Web 2.0 and the University FaceBook Social Networking Rites of Passage...) Next.
posted by redbarren at 10:51 AM
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