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Squeet Your Way to Feed Buzz Stats

Robert Scoble — Fri, 28 Apr 2006 17:19:29 +0000

Squeet just shipped a new version Thursday which lets RSS feed producers (aka bloggers) watch how much buzz their RSS feeds are generating.

To me, though, Squeet is a cool way to convert RSS feeds into emails. Good way to get your favorite blog emailed to you. Never miss when your mom posts again.

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Squeet, what to do if you dont want to RSS

Robert Scoble — Tue, 07 Mar 2006 17:29:06 +0000

I’m getting lots of emails wondering “what time will the Origami video be available?” I don’t yet know, sorry.

I should know today sometime. But, that points out there’s lots of people who don’t yet use RSS News Aggregators (if you did, you wouldn’t care about what time something gets released cause you’d automatically have it the minute it was if you had an RSS aggregator). But, I know there’s lots of people who feel more comfortable with email than with RSS.

So, here’s a solution. Use http://www.squeet.com/ – just enter the RSS feed you want to be warned about and it’ll email you every time that RSS feed is updated. I’ve been using it a few weeks and it works great.

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Will RSS Revolutionize Email Newsletters?

Steve Rubel — Wed, 18 Jan 2006 14:57:29 +0000

Hamid Shojaee just wrote me about a startup he’s formed called Squeet. The service streams RSS feeds via email.

Shojaee talks about it here on his blog. He also says that the service can update feeds as fast as every 30 minutes or in once daily digest emails. The latter is the approach competitors, such as FeedBlitz, pursue.

RSS feeds aren’t going to replace email publishing any time soon. However, I do see a future for paid email newsletters that are powered by feed technology. Using RSS you could offer a paid newsletter service that is monetized with contextual ads (e.g. from AdSense or Yahoo Publisher Network) and/or Amazon Associate links. I could easily see how someone might form a potentially profitable paid email newsletter company by combining three different services – FeedXS for publishing, FeedBurner for serving ads and FeedBlitz or Squeet for RSS to email conversion. You don’t even need a blog. However, you do need proprietary content that’s worth paying for if you want to monetize your newsletter.

Steve Rubel is a PR strategist with nearly 16 years of public relations, marketing, journalism and communications experience. He currently serves as a Senior Vice President with Edelman, the largest independent global PR firm.

He authors the Micro Persuasion weblog, which tracks how blogs and participatory journalism are changing the public relations practice.