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Old 02-03-2006, 10:10 AM   #6
NathanBaron
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I would hate to be the decenting voice on my first post to your site. (I read the RSS feed regularly on my palm

I read feeds using QuickNews on my treo 650. I have the software set up to download feeds every 4 hours, I have about 30-40 feeds that I skim through daily.

I have the reader set up to download just before I get out of bed. When I get up and have coffee in hand I go through the feeds that interest me, Mobile Read included.

As for your points on generating traffic, I read this post in my feed this morning and was enticed to click the link and follow through to this post and then comment. In the PR community there is alot of debate about full and partial feeds in terms of measurement. Readers no longer have to come to the site to see all of the content, and there could be an appearance of less traffic at the site even though the same readers are getting the content, just in a different way.

I agree that there are problems with headlines or "teaser" feeds rather than fully published articles. I would suggest that this is a content provider problem rather than a mobile device problem. However, some of the sites that do offer "teaser" feeds do entice me to click through. On the treo, I don't have much of a problem getting access to news stories through blazer.

One last thing that maybe should be included in this discussion are the new Web 2.0 like solutions that are coming out. I use a custom google homepage on both of my desktops and my PDA. This allows me direct contact with all of my top RSS feeds on all computers, and is a convienient portal to the information that matters most to me. I hope that this develops in the mobile space, as the big players adopt these new technologies.

Just my $0.02.
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