{"id":95923,"date":"2009-12-23T09:42:00","date_gmt":"2009-12-23T14:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.softpedia.com\/news\/The-RSS-Market-Is-in-Disarray-but-the-Technology-Is-Here-to-Stay-130587.shtml"},"modified":"2009-12-23T09:42:00","modified_gmt":"2009-12-23T14:42:00","slug":"the-rss-market-is-in-disarray-but-the-technology-is-here-to-stay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/95923","title":{"rendered":"The RSS Market Is in Disarray but the Technology Is Here to Stay"},"content":{"rendered":"

For the past months and seeing some resurgence lately, RSS as a medium for consuming and discovering news and other content has been pretty much left for dead, with everyone claiming that Twitter and for a while FriendFeed replaced to a certain degree by Facebook now are all much better and faster ways of getting the latest stories. Now, the Read Write Web blog has come out with an analysis of the state of the market and the conclusion is grim, Google Reader dominates the market for feed readers and that the market itself is in “disaray.” Blogger Louis Gray though offers an alternative view, claiming that, even though the reader market may be in bad shape, RSS is doing great and people are using it in greater numbers than ever.<\/p>\n

First things first, RWW analyzed the data from its own feeds to find out what readers are the most popular and what their market share is. It came as no surprise that Google dominates the field with Reader managing to have more users than the following two readers, Bloglines and Netvibes, combined. FriendFeed came in fourth place, but the site has been bleeding users for the past months since it has been acquired by Facebook, so it may not hold its place for long. This leads the blog to conclude that the RSS readers are quickly becoming irrelevant and that Google Reader will … (read more<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

For the past months and seeing some resurgence lately, RSS as a medium for consuming and discovering news and other content has been pretty much left for dead, with everyone claiming that Twitter and for a while FriendFeed replaced to a certain degree by Facebook now are all much better and faster ways of getting […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-95923","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95923","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=95923"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95923\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}