A now "deceased" website on RSS marketing and RSS publishing - a look at the history of internet marketing

Rok Hrastnik

A Note from the Author: The RSS Diary is Closed

rssdiary.marketingstudies.net was built to help marketers get the most from RSS. However, much has changed since the site was last updated in 2007 - and it's pretty fair to say that it's now completely outdated.

Since I've moved on to other interests in internet marketing years ago, the site is now officially closed, and only remains online as an archive of a part of internet marketing's past. This is how we used to see RSS between 2004 - 2007. We don't, anymore, but there's no harm in having a small part of our past available online.

With that, I'm also making the e-book that started all of this, Unleas the Marketing and Publishing Power of RSS, available for free download.

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Extending RSS for Financial Markets

 
 

As RSS deployement moves in to different markets, new extensions to the format will be needed to meet specific market requirements. While this might become a pain for RSS vendors, there actually are some interesting proposals on the table that do make sense.

One of those has been authored by FinancialContent, a provider of financial data and business applications to online media and financial services companies.

They're proposing that RSS 2.0 be extended with a new category element, which would standardize the use of stock ticker symbols for financial content, which would make it easier for RSS aggregators to attach a specific content item to a specific company on the stock market.

Information on the proposed technicalities is available here.

While this might make categorizing financial data easier, it's questionable how successfull such an initiative can become, considering that it's proposed by a market contender, which does create some adoption barriers.

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Rok Hrastnik is an experienced international internet marketer and manager in Central & Eastern Europe, lead by the conviction that marketers should first be driven by measurable business outcomes: sales and profits.

He is currently serving as the International Internet Director at Studio Moderna, the leading CEE direct response TV & multi-channel retailer, managing their internet operations across 22 countries (Russia, Poland, Czech Republic, Turkey, Romania, the Baltics and others).