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October 10, 2005

Microsoft Discussing the RSS Icon in IE7

posted by Rok Hrastnik in RSS Marketing

The Microsoft Team RSS is discussing what icon to use in their IE7 toolbar to represent RSS feeds.

Go take a look and contribute your comments.

Personally, I'm not really happy about any of their choices, but the best is number 4, showing the broadcasting of content.

Basically, #4 is the only one really describing some of the essence of RSS, with all others really not having much to do with it and really being more a creative statement than a user-oriented design function.

Also, putting some text in the icon, such as "Feed", would also not be a bad idea, just to further explain things to users.

The interesting thing is that among their comments many people seem to prefer the old XML button, although research shows the button not only being dead, but never taking life in the first place. Sorry, XML is just to techie.

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Relaxation Therapy CD’s and DVD’s have been around for a long time.. Allot of Americans can’t even sleep without some sort of sound machine playing..

Posted by: Rex Follett at October 8, 2007 4:35 PM

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