gsandler writes ”
Here
is a New York Times story on how RSS
has captured the attention of advertisers. “THE fledgling R.S.S. business is starting to attract some attention from those catering to Internet advertisers.
Google, Pheedo,
Feedster and Yahoo Search Marketing are all peddling advertising options for R.S.S., an increasingly popular way of having a personal computer automatically retrieve information from the Internet…
Some big companies, like Verizon, are starting to buy space in the R.S.S. information streams, which are selected anonymously and pulled from Web sites by a PC."”
Great
Great, even more spam coming across my bandwidth. I really wonder what the numbers are on people buying things through unsolicited advertisement? I don’t know about the majority, but an unsolicited ad really turns me off to the product they’re trying to foist on me. Seriously, I might have actually bought an X10 camera. I have uses for such a camera and the price wasn’t all bad. The reason I didn’t buy one was because they continuously shoved their damn product in my face.
And if I’m pulling a feed on a blog or site I really like and suddenly I get an advertisement in there for something I don’t want, don’t need, never even asked for– well, I might have to rethink watching that feed.