Comments on: Video: Feed Basics for Consumers http://www.ericjohnolson.com/blog/2007/03/05/video-feed-basics-for-consumers/ Media, Economics, Finance, Business, Technology, etc. Mon, 19 Apr 2010 08:03:18 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Eric Olson http://www.ericjohnolson.com/blog/2007/03/05/video-feed-basics-for-consumers/comment-page-1/#comment-4409 Eric Olson Tue, 06 Mar 2007 15:52:36 +0000 http://www.ericjohnolson.com/blog/2007/03/05/video-feed-basics-for-consumers/#comment-4409 Great video! Some of the responses were priceless. However, I would be curious to see what the reaction would be if you started talking about services like MyYahoo. A lot of people use that service and have no idea that it's actually a feed reader. In the end of the day users don't have to know anything about feeds/RSS to use it. E-mail is a great parallel. It's pretty complicated on the back end and the majority of users have no idea how it really works. All they know is they can send a message to someone and it gets to them. If all people know about feeds is that they can get all of the content they want in one place that they control than that's all they need to know. Also, I wonder if you would get different responses if you asked what feeds are instead of what RSS is. Most people don't know the acronym but they may know what a feed is. Great video! Some of the responses were priceless. However, I would be curious to see what the reaction would be if you started talking about services like MyYahoo. A lot of people use that service and have no idea that it’s actually a feed reader. In the end of the day users don’t have to know anything about feeds/RSS to use it.

E-mail is a great parallel. It’s pretty complicated on the back end and the majority of users have no idea how it really works. All they know is they can send a message to someone and it gets to them. If all people know about feeds is that they can get all of the content they want in one place that they control than that’s all they need to know.

Also, I wonder if you would get different responses if you asked what feeds are instead of what RSS is. Most people don’t know the acronym but they may know what a feed is.

]]> By: piersj http://www.ericjohnolson.com/blog/2007/03/05/video-feed-basics-for-consumers/comment-page-1/#comment-4405 piersj Tue, 06 Mar 2007 10:04:20 +0000 http://www.ericjohnolson.com/blog/2007/03/05/video-feed-basics-for-consumers/#comment-4405 Really great to see this type of video being put together, there is a definite need for RSS to be explained to potential customers as right now people dont get it. We surveyed people on the street here in the UK to see what they thought RSS was, you can see the results here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i1QnqJPvQ_k Really great to see this type of video being put together, there is a definite need for RSS to be explained to potential customers as right now people dont get it. We surveyed people on the street here in the UK to see what they thought RSS was, you can see the results here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i1QnqJPvQ_k

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