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much has changed since the site was last updated in 2007 - and it's pretty fair to say that it's now completely outdated.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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The Nooked RSS Directory

 
 

I spoke quite extensivelly with Fergus Burns of Nooked while attending the Internationa Direct Marketing Fair in London. We also took about 5 minutes (really:) to do a short interview on RSS, which should be available quite soon.

Anyway, during our meeting Fergus also mentioned a new RSS directory they're putting together. They launched it just recently, and while it's still new and is slowly building up content, it looks great.

Here's what Nooked has to say about it:

"At Nooked, we make software for creating, publishing and measuring RSS feeds. In testing our software, we sought out a wide variety of corporate RSS feeds. We discovered that these were difficult to locate. We were eventually reduced to visiting individual sites and arduous Google, Technorati and PubSub searches.

During this process, we concluded that there should be a directory of feeds, to help people find them and encourage their use. Of course, we already had a fledging database of corporate RSS feeds.

We decided to launch the Nooked RSS Directory. Anyone can add feeds using the Submit page, search our database or browse the feeds using categories. We're hoping that this will grow into a valuable resource to help all sorts of professionals: journalists monitoring a particular industry, companies keeping an eye on the competition, analysts doing research and so on.

Have a look around. If your organization has an RSS feed, please submit it."

Visit the Nooked RSS Directory

Unleash the Marketing and Publishing Power of RSS
Rok Hrastnik Avtor: Rok Hrastnik

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).