Comments on: Busy RSS Week For Our Portfolio Companies http://www.feld.com/wp/archives/2005/06/busy-rss-week-for-our-portfolio-companies.html Tue, 16 Mar 2010 10:23:03 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Geek News Central http://www.feld.com/wp/archives/2005/06/busy-rss-week-for-our-portfolio-companies.html/comment-page-1#comment-991 Geek News Central Tue, 21 Jun 2005 11:10:41 +0000 http://www.feld.com/wp/?p=411#comment-991 <strong>Geek News Central Podcast #75 2005-06-21</strong> Delayed the announcement of the Show 75 winners because I just did not have time to get through all the entries winner to be announced on Friday's show. Lots of things happening this week over on techpodcasts.com also Request I... Geek News Central Podcast #75 2005-06-21

Delayed the announcement of the Show 75 winners because I just did not have time to get through all the entries winner to be announced on Friday’s show. Lots of things happening this week over on techpodcasts.com also Request I…

]]> By: Ben Barren http://www.feld.com/wp/archives/2005/06/busy-rss-week-for-our-portfolio-companies.html/comment-page-1#comment-990 Ben Barren Mon, 13 Jun 2005 14:12:36 +0000 http://www.feld.com/wp/?p=411#comment-990 I am going to be interested in how del.icio.is is commercialised outside of VC's using it as a way of amusing themselves (which I have no problem with, and the elevator pitch model appealled to me :) ! I use del.icio.us for every new link I tag, so I would assume contextual ads for the infinite categories of user based tags and links within, are an obvious revenue stream. I've heard of future enterprise management applications for tagging but this would not be necessarily won by delicious. Im very impressed by the Feedburner Mobile applications (and the rest, esp enterprise), given the wireless background of the team, it will be interesting to see how RSS and related services/feeds go in this space. Also re the Feedburner podcasts growth, it is amazing, but not surprising (cant wait till we get the number breakdowns - I assume there are 3-4 ipodder clients with 100K's of thousands of users plus 10-15 podcasts with 10k's of users) I think we will see more 'networks' form here as most podcasters other than adam curry and the geekier ones, cant afford their mortgage or hosting fees. (but are in the podcastalley.com top 10) I am also very interested in what the centralised advertising platform/server will be for podcasting. Like RSS ads, podcast sponsorship needs to fit very contextually, but you cant click on a podcast. Friends of mine that run a top 5 podcast network say that advertisers have offered them $1 per podcast for sponsorship, although that would equal a $1000 CPM based on impressions, which is a very high (virtual) CPC ;) The new technorati looks good and I like its integration of delicious links etc (although on one of the searches they suggest 'venture capital' - the delicious links did not seem real time or from that day, which they need to be - apologies if they are) I would like technorati to be more user/tagging orientated than it is. Good investments Brad, keep us updated Ben <a href="http://benbarren.blogspot.com" rel="nofollow">http://benbarren.blogspot.com</a> I am going to be interested in how del.icio.is is commercialised outside of VC’s using it as a way of amusing themselves (which I have no problem with, and the elevator pitch model appealled to me :) !

I use del.icio.us for every new link I tag, so I would assume contextual ads for the infinite categories of user based tags and links within, are an obvious revenue stream.

I’ve heard of future enterprise management applications for tagging but this would not be necessarily won by delicious.

Im very impressed by the Feedburner Mobile applications (and the rest, esp enterprise), given the wireless background of the team, it will be interesting to see how RSS and related services/feeds go in this space.

Also re the Feedburner podcasts growth, it is amazing, but not surprising (cant wait till we get the number breakdowns – I assume there are 3-4 ipodder clients with 100K’s of thousands of users plus 10-15 podcasts with 10k’s of users) I think we will see more ‘networks’ form here as most podcasters other than adam curry and the geekier ones, cant afford their mortgage or hosting fees. (but are in the podcastalley.com top 10)

I am also very interested in what the centralised advertising platform/server will be for podcasting.

Like RSS ads, podcast sponsorship needs to fit very contextually, but you cant click on a podcast.

Friends of mine that run a top 5 podcast network say that advertisers have offered them $1 per podcast for sponsorship, although that would equal a $1000 CPM based on impressions, which is a very high (virtual) CPC ;)

The new technorati looks good and I like its integration of delicious links etc (although on one of the searches they suggest ‘venture capital’ – the delicious links did not seem real time or from that day, which they need to be – apologies if they are)

I would like technorati to be more user/tagging orientated than it is.

Good investments Brad, keep us updated

Ben
http://benbarren.blogspot.com

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