Wednesday, August 17, 2005
RSS Feeds or Web Feeds
We just announced our official release of our RSS Reader and a hot debate inside the company for weeks has been what to name the reader. We finally settled on the label "RSS Feeds". There were many other suggestions including "Web Feeds", "RSS Subscriptions", "My Feeds", and "My Subscriptions". I think we made a good decision but David Coursey of eWeek.com seems to disagree. Although David was not talking about our product, it was rather ironic that his article came out the same day we released our reader. I really like "RSS Feeds" because it can't be confused with any other technology. If you have heard of RSS you will "get it" right away. And if you haven't heard of RSS hopefully curiosity alone will inspire you to click on our help section and learn all about it. I'd like to hear other opinions though, so feel free to email me or leave comments!
