Mike Coyle’s Weblog

Burning Questions, The Official FeedBurner Weblog, is running a series of market reports. The first installment is titled Feed for Thought, subititled “How feeds will change the way content is distributed, valued, and consumed.”

They give a pretty nice summarization of the benefits of RSS for non-blog contexts:

Feeds provide three critical benefits to any digital media:

1. A notification mechanism for updates to a specific channel of content
2. The ability to subscribe to content, creating a persistent link between publisher and subscriber
3. A semi-structured version of the content

I do think that the 2007 version of their Venn diagram will show Line-of-Business applications as yet another first-class producer of RSS/Atom feeds.

We have baked RSS feed support into the core of ProjectPipe.com, not because was the pre-AJAX hot thing to do technically, but rather because we firmly believe that syndicating project data will eliminate an entire class of status reporting, report preparation, and much of the other mundane busywork activity that absolutely chokes the productivity (and sometimes the spirit) out of so many project teams.

At Botonomy, it is our mission to help small teams solve large problems. Small teams don’t have the bandwidth to blow cycles going person-to-person gathering raw data for status reports or one-off inquiries. We want to throw software at that problem, and make it easy for the person that needs project information to instantly and easily connect to a reliable source of up-to-the-minute data.

In a nutshell, we see a world where the TPS Report publishes itself.

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