RSS over P2P

October 19th, 2005 * Comments(0)

 Feedtree.net is offering a new service that replaces the usual polling architecture of RSS with a Peer-to-Peer approach.

Peers in the network share the bandwidth costs, which reduces the load on the provider, and updated content is delivered to clients as soon as it is available.

To be honest I don’t really get it. Surely distributing content over RSS causes much less badwidth problems than regular HTML?! Why would you want to distribute it and get yourself into a completely different set of problems? Security, legal, copyright… these are just some of the things that come to mind at the moment.

BTW Why would people be willing to share the cost of bandwidth for such a purpose?

It’s an interesting concept but I guess we’ll have to see how it develops.

 

RSS Advertizing plan

October 19th, 2005 * Comments(0)

Basically what advertizers should know about RSS and ways they can use it.

 How to Buy RSS Advertising – Part I: Setting the Stage

 How to Buy RSS Advertising – Part II: The Media Plan

 

Blog design mistakes

October 19th, 2005 * Comments(0)

 Weblog usability: Top 10 design mistakes by Jakob Nielsen of  UsetIt.com


1. No Author Biographies
2. No Author Photo
3. Nondescript Posting Titles
4. Links Don’t Say Where They Go
5. Classic Hits are Buried
6. The Calendar is the Only Navigation
7. Irregular Publishing Frequency
8. Mixing Topics
9. Forgetting That You Write for Your Future Boss
10. Having a Domain Name Owned by a Weblog Service

 Darren Rowse of Problogger.net adds another one to the list:

11. No Contact Details

Will the defendant please rise! …….. How do you plead?

1. guilty
2. guilty
3. not guilty (I hope)
4. sometimes guilty
5. guilty
6. there is no calendar!
7. guilty
8. guilty
9. probably guilty
10. guilty (kind of)
11. guilty

The conclusion – this blog is deeply flawed from a usability perspective I guess we’re slowly working on that.

 

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