A look at current methods for dealing with RSS, and ideas for moving forward.

1. Ilya Grigorik & Kevin Thomason

2. Looks familiar, right?

3. Microsoft’s study * http://research.microsoft.com/acid/rss/default.aspx * http://www.igvita.com/blog/2006/12/21/reinventing-rss-readers/

4. Microsoft’s study * http://research.microsoft.com/acid/rss/default.aspx * http://www.igvita.com/blog/2006/12/21/reinventing-rss-readers/ Average is 101+ ? Wow! Average user = Opens reader 3 times * 30 minutes per session Average user = 1.5 hours / day

5. I want to solve the question of ‘I don’t have any time and I subscribe to 500 feeds. I just got off the plane. What do I need to read?’ (Kevin Burton – Tailrank). Wired Magazine , 2003 “ Information overload” “ TechCrunch, for example, may now have almost 300,000 people subscribed to its feed who log on to their feed reader in a given day - but only a portion of those people view the TechCrunch feed in particular on a given day . I know I’m subscribed to many feeds that I almost never actually read, FeedBurner’s engagement metrics try to parse that behavior out from active readership.” * http://www.wired.com/techbiz/it/news/2003/08/60053 * http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/02/22/feedburner-releases-major-user-engagement-report/ * http://www.kinggary.com/archives/relieving-my-severe-addiction-to-feeds/ Techcrunch , 2007 Just a few minutes ago, I put my feed reader on a diet and unsubscribed to about 150 feeds, so that I’m now left with 53 feeds. I plan on skimming that down a bit more to, at most , 50 feeds, and plan on keeping it below that. Gary King , yesterday… is nothing new…

7. Hold on, let’s backtrack… awesome!

8. Back in December…  Digg & Delicious frontpage * http:// www.igvita.com/blog/2006/12/29/postrank-rss-filtering / PostRank  96 Comments  Delicious & Dzone frontpage etc .

10. We’re launching, soon.. Chief Tech Plumber - UW CS, Grad Student at UoT Chief Bean Counter - UW CS, Investment Banker Chaos Coordinator - Laurier Business, Marketing (Apple, KPMG, Quarry) Ilya Grigorik Francis Lau Kevin Thomason [email_address] [email_address] [email_address] Open for beta: early June. Launch date: June. (not kidding) We need beta testers & we’ve got shwag. If you’re interested, head to our blog (we launched it today) http://www.aiderss.com/blog