$100M RSS Fund Launched

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Investors pony up for a fund specializing in web syndication.

It's common to find articles where writers don't fully get the value of RSS. And it's also common for people to get misquoted or not completely "heard" in an interview. But Jim Moore should have hammered home the real value of RSS and why people should invest in it.“RSS now makes it possible for individuals literally within minutes to put up a new site, update content regularly, let others comment on it, and you can answer back,” Mr. Moore said.Sure - but the real value is time; it saves businesses and individuals lots of time. As humans, we're very good at recognizing pattens that change. But the RSS format and a good newsreader can do this for us with much greater efficiency. It is this fundamental value proposition that drives investments like this and adoption by companies and individuals. <a title="Enterprise RSS" href="blog/11678" target="_blank">Enterprises</a> are beginning to adopt RSS for many reasons, but ultimately it boils down to productivity for customers and information workers alike. Forrester indicates that the average information worker spends a little over two hours a day trying to lay their hands on information to do their jobs. What if you could shave that back by 8 minutes a day? It's a big number in terms of corporate productivity gains, and RSS can certainly achieve that. 9 application/xml false Jim Moore RSS RSS value proposition $100M RSS Fund Launched Jim Moore and John Palfrey have launched RSS Investors with $100m of capital. http://www.siliconvalleywatcher.com/mt/archives/2005/06/were_off_to_the.php Enterprise RSS Services MyST Enterprise RSS services are designed to provide integration connectors and business logic that map existing corporate content and information sources to RSS feeds. http://myst-technology.com/documents/papers/MyST%20WhitePaper%20-%20Enterprise%20RSS%20Overview.pdf Enterprise RSS: A Definition This is an overloaded term worthy of definition, but it does reflect the overall push to create internal and external content that's more consumable. item/90678 Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 5.1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322; .NET CLR 2.0.50727) 127.0.0.1 127.0.0.1 aseidl 68.40.167.222 false true false false true 190014 false false true false false false true 11678 blog blogsite/MySTHome/web