Though RSS has been around for a long time, it’s not very close to being as ubiquitous as Yahoo Mail, MySpace or Orkut for that matter. Google seems to have taken a step in the right direction by introducing a rather simplistic feed reader within Orkut.
Strategically speaking, integrating RSS feeds into Orkut seems to be a good move. What any technology new or old needs to succeed is wide spread consumer adoption and what Orkut brings to the table is a huge big user base with a statistically significant geek population. As with all things new, the early adopters of this feature are bound to be geeks, adding their RSS feeds on their profiles.
According to Chris Hughes, spokesman for Facebook, “People spend an average of 19 minutes a day on Facebook”. Though I couldn’t find any statistics for Orkut usage off hand, I’m sure we can infer that Orkut follows a similar trend, which means that the average Orkut user won’t go without noticing these RSS feeds.
Like they say in the PR world “Any publicity is good publicity”. What we’re going to see is a larger adoption of RSS, though you can pretty much say that the users would graduate from the Orkut feed reader to more advanced RSS aggregators like Bloglines or Google Reader. All in all, I feel that we blogger should rejoice, for we’re gonna get may more readers.
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wrote, on June 2nd, 2007
Its awesome feature.
It will be nice to let community owners add related feeds to communities.
wrote, on June 2nd, 2007
Another way to promote our blog..great
wrote, on June 3rd, 2007
I was waiting for this to happen from a Long time.
wrote, on June 3rd, 2007
haha, another way to earn traffic! Cool!
wrote, on June 3rd, 2007
i hope they also provide scrap as rss feeds very soon officially.
wrote, on June 4th, 2007
great feature…thanks for sharing the info
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wrote, on June 4th, 2007
I completely agree with this, that’s why I’ve placed a “What is an RSS Feed?” right under my feed link.
wrote, on June 4th, 2007
Yep I’m too using that RSS Feed feature to syndicate my blog’s content..but the problem is that normal people who don’t know about RSS aren’t using it.
And I haven’t seen anyone started using it just because orkut added it!
-vibhash.
wrote, on June 4th, 2007
Cool feature. If only they make scraps too available as feeds (officially)….
wrote, on June 5th, 2007
Hmm..i still dont see many indians using it!!
wrote, on June 6th, 2007
Aha! At last Orkut proves to actually have a function that I might find useful. All this scraps/friends/fans/crushes/… business has been completely beyond my comprehension thus far.
wrote, on May 20th, 2008
Man yeah i cant get onto bebo at school can you guys help me out a lil bit..thanxs
wrote, on February 20th, 2009
I think RSS is a fantastic website feature.
I use it on my website and its great to keep my subscribers upto date with the latest freebies and gadgets.
Louise