Nov 11
With IE7� and Firefox 2 being released last month, it has surprised me that little mention has been made in the industry about them both converting RSS feeds into user friendly pages.
This is great news for people who used to click on the bright orange RSS square and get shocked with a page full of geeky gobbledy-gook and will no doubt increase “Average Joe’s” take up of RSS feeds and podcasting. But where does this leave FeedBurner?
FeedBurner provides good stats for tracking RSS subscriptions, although one of its big features has always been that it generates a human friendly page for your feeds. With an ever increasing number of people updating to the latest browser version (soon without choice) - the FeedBurner page will be no-more, having been re-encoded from the underlying RSS into a more basic human friendly page. Top marks for the new browser feature, but not good for FeedBurner’s bottom line with less eyeballs on their logo, linkbacks and USP.