http://kenyarmosh.com/serious-problems-with-rss-part-1-accurate-metrics/ Ken Yarmosh is a product strategist who helps organizations, businesses, VCs, and technology developers maximize their Internet and mobile investments. Tue, 31 Aug 2010 14:44:02 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 http://kenyarmosh.com/serious-problems-with-rss-part-1-accurate-metrics/#comment-7709 links for 2006-10-25 « My Weblog Wed, 25 Oct 2006 10:22:28 +0000 http://www.technosight.com/serious-problems-with-rss-part-1-accurate-metrics/#comment-7709 [...] TECHNOSIGHT » Serious Problems with RSS - Part 1 (Accurate Metrics) (tags: rss web20 feedburner) [...] [...] TECHNOSIGHT » Serious Problems with RSS – Part 1 (Accurate Metrics) (tags: rss web20 feedburner) [...]

]]> http://kenyarmosh.com/serious-problems-with-rss-part-1-accurate-metrics/#comment-7663 Ken Yarmosh Tue, 24 Oct 2006 18:24:08 +0000 http://www.technosight.com/serious-problems-with-rss-part-1-accurate-metrics/#comment-7663 Randy, your point is taken - but I don't think it applies to the crux of the problems I was speaking to: 1) Multiple subscribers (e.g., I subscribe to a feed through Rojo and Google Reader - and use both in addition to a client and mobile feed reader). 2) Demographics. Randy, your point is taken – but I don’t think it applies to the crux of the problems I was speaking to: 1) Multiple subscribers (e.g., I subscribe to a feed through Rojo and Google Reader – and use both in addition to a client and mobile feed reader). 2) Demographics.

]]> http://kenyarmosh.com/serious-problems-with-rss-part-1-accurate-metrics/#comment-7654 Randy Charles Morin Tue, 24 Oct 2006 13:48:52 +0000 http://www.technosight.com/serious-problems-with-rss-part-1-accurate-metrics/#comment-7654 This depends entirely on where your subscribers are coming from. For instance, Web-based RSS readers like MyYahoo! have a lot subs, but very few actual readers. That's because they tend to report the total subs, not the active subs. On the other hand, native RSS readers like GreatNews report active subs, so the count is very accurate. Email-based readers like Rmail tend to be very accurate because I unsub anyone who gets a substantial amount of delivery failures. I notice you use FeedBlitz. I hope you don't mind your readers getting spammed ;-) This depends entirely on where your subscribers are coming from. For instance, Web-based RSS readers like MyYahoo! have a lot subs, but very few actual readers. That’s because they tend to report the total subs, not the active subs. On the other hand, native RSS readers like GreatNews report active subs, so the count is very accurate. Email-based readers like Rmail tend to be very accurate because I unsub anyone who gets a substantial amount of delivery failures. I notice you use FeedBlitz. I hope you don’t mind your readers getting spammed ;-)

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