Comments on: FeedBurner Networks – The Venture Capital Network

By: Cheap_Condoms

Cheap_Condoms — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 16:06:58 +0000

The problem with many social networks are that they hover between 1 % and 5 to 6% with no hope of reaching the 19%. "Walking Dead" so to say!

By: Cheap Condoms

Cheap Condoms — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 19:45:52 +0000

Sorry, but as a feed subscriber I don't see much benefit to me. I can already aggregate feeds via feed searches and, depending on the newsreader, organize feeds in many ways. Are these network coordinators paid? Or is FeedBurner making money off of you for free?

By: cheap condoms

cheap condoms — Sun, 20 Sep 2009 13:38:00 +0000

the concept is really good and is a little helpful.

By: cheap condoms

cheap condoms — Sun, 20 Sep 2009 13:38:00 +0000

the concept is really good and is a little helpful.

By: John Hood

John Hood — Sun, 06 Aug 2006 20:56:07 +0000

I’d welcome the opportunity to participate in an entertainment/technology network.

By: Webmetricsguru

Webmetricsguru — Sun, 06 Aug 2006 18:34:26 +0000

Yes, I just posted on this at Webmetricsguru.com – it’s a good idea as this stage – but it’s going to need work. I’m holding out final decision about the value of this offering till Phase 2 is rolled out at the end of 2006.
http://www.webmetricsguru.com/2006/08/new_feedburner_offering_feedbu.html

By: VC Mike

VC Mike — Sun, 06 Aug 2006 18:17:55 +0000

Brad (and Dick/Feedburner crew), I really like this idea and will sign up!

By: Mike Rundle

Mike Rundle — Sun, 06 Aug 2006 16:53:55 +0000

Sounds pretty similar to what we've been doing at 9rules for about a year now. Instead of individial networks, we call the Communities and have about 30 of them: Business Community (VCs, stock analysts, investing)

By: Michael Martine

Michael Martine — Sun, 06 Aug 2006 15:58:11 +0000

Sorry, but as a feed subscriber I don’t see much benefit to me. I can already aggregate feeds via feed searches and, depending on the newsreader, organize feeds in many ways. Are these network coordinators paid? Or is FeedBurner making money off of you for free?

By: Ian

Ian — Sun, 06 Aug 2006 11:12:26 +0000

I started something similar to what you mention called http://vc-chat.com about 3-4 weeks ago. god my timing is awful.

By: Eric

Eric — Sun, 06 Aug 2006 05:40:33 +0000

I would love to be able to help out and start a network for marketing blogs. I think this is a great idea and a great way to get like minded people reading other relevant content and continue to share links.

Let me know if I can be of any help.

By: Brad Feld

Brad Feld — Sat, 05 Aug 2006 19:24:47 +0000

Both excellent comments that we are going to try to address.

1. While you can subscribe to the network feed, it’ll also be easy to subscribe to individual feeds in the network. In addition – I just thought of a clever way to do this from the spliced feed page, which I’ll make sure we roll in. So – you can scan the full network feed, but then still get full feeds (easily) from individual members of the network.

2. You should have a way to deselect members of the network from the full network feed. For example, say you aren’t interested in reading my stuff anymore. You should be able to get the network – Feld Thoughts.

3. The networks should be able to be filtered by category. For example, you don’t want to read all the posts – just the ones about venture capital and entrepreneurship. This should be something you (the subscriber) controls, but this should also be something the network coordinator can configure for the entire network.

I think these address both of the points raised above.

By: Mark Troutman

Mark Troutman — Sat, 05 Aug 2006 13:30:33 +0000

Don’t let the Network grow too large. My RSS reader magically accumulates feeds and grows to a point where I just don’t have the time to read all of the blogs I’ve subscribed to. I would like to see a short list of really high quality blogs that won’t take me more than 30 minutes a day to follow.

A possible idea would be to have tiers to the Network. It may get too clumsy.. but I envision VC Network A, B, C and then VC Network Complete, where each tier has a slightly different flavor. I think it is too soon to try and implement something like this now, but would be a nice expansion on the product later.

I really like what you guys are doing over there at FeedBurner, keep up the good work.

By: ndintenfass

ndintenfass — Sat, 05 Aug 2006 07:21:30 +0000

Do you fear that as people consume your blog content through the network rather than directly from your site/feed that your own personal voice (and thus reputation/notoriety) will get diluted? If I click on the “Feld Thoughts” bookmark in my feed reader I directly associate what I’m reading with Brad Feld, but if I’m skimming through the (lengthy list of) posts in the “network” feed the identify of each author gets blurred or even lost to me. As a reader I start to think of the “brand” of the network as my source of information and start to lose my affinity with the individual authors.

Just curious to hear your thoughts on that dynamic.