Comments on: FeedCycle: Smarter Serialized Stories

By: So you won an award, huh? (Musings on travel ecommerce)

So you won an award, huh? (Musings on travel ecommerce) — Fri, 21 Sep 2007 20:55:38 +0000

[...] (such as for repeating podcasts or training - where each subscriber needs to start at day #1). Michael Arrington from Techcrunch called it smart. Now that is as good as an award (especially as it only took 2 weekends). [...]

By: Weekly Roundup, December 1, 2006 : Exclusive Concepts Blog

Weekly Roundup, December 1, 2006 : Exclusive Concepts Blog — Tue, 10 Jul 2007 11:06:15 +0000

[...] New tool FeedCycle for serialized stories RSS feeds [...]

By: Superman

Superman — Sat, 02 Dec 2006 20:37:38 +0000

A similar site to your feedhoster, quite easy to create a feed in about 1/2 a second, is http://mynotify.com/

By: Charles

Charles — Wed, 29 Nov 2006 02:12:20 +0000

Right around the time Peter Cooper posted about this last year we developed something similar…

http://www.surfarama.com/?p=242

It was commercialized at feedhoster.com, which was subsequently sold…who knows what they’re doing with it now.

By: Serialized RSS at effective web ministry notes

Serialized RSS at effective web ministry notes — Tue, 28 Nov 2006 12:41:06 +0000

[...] This is good. I’ve not tried it yet though. A TechCrunch article explains: If you are telling a multi-part story, or communicating a segmented message over time, you should give FeedCycle a look. Publishers can use FeedCycle to create publication schedules and intervals; all subscribers then start by receiving the first item in a feed regardless of when they subscribe and future items are delivered at the intervals determined by the publisher. Text, audio and video podcasts can all be scheduled and delivered with FeedCycle. [...]

By: mobmash blog » Blog Archive » links for 2006-11-28

mobmash blog » Blog Archive » links for 2006-11-28 — Tue, 28 Nov 2006 00:22:22 +0000

[...] Techcrunch » Blog Archive » FeedCycle: Smarter Serialized Stories (tags: rss publishing learning ideas) [...]

By: FeedCycle

FeedCycle — Mon, 27 Nov 2006 21:46:47 +0000

Phew - what a response.

Ugly! Ouch. But probably correct.

1} FeedBurner - it can be done with FeedBurner - even though we have unique URLs per subscriber (sort of). Not an easy solution currently. FeedBurner do handle dynamic URLs though - but its a commercial service they offer. Lets see where this takes us in the future.

2} Are we web 2.0 - certainly I don’t particularly care for the term - and don’t use it myself. I just had a problem on a site we were running and couldn’t find a solution - so we built FeedCycle as a solution. It seems to be picking up a life on its own. If other people can make use of the free service that is fine by us.

3} Is it old news? We didn’t build it to be new news! We built it to solve a problem. From that perspective I don’t mind if its new or old news…

4} VC. Hah! Time yes, VC no. We are a company that runs a CMS for websites… and also supply ecommerce project management services for leading UK dot coms. Really - do you think we went to a VC with a plan to put War and Peace on the web? Come on!

Instead of War and Peace, a much better idea would for a podcaster to put a few of their “best” podcasts on FeedCycle and offer it as a “taster” - to get people interested in signing up to a full feed.

Summary - thanks everyone for your interest in FeedCycle. Still work in progress - but isn’t everything on the web?

Alex
http://www.feedcycle.com

By: RickMahn.com » Blog Archive » links for 2006-11-27

RickMahn.com » Blog Archive » links for 2006-11-27 — Mon, 27 Nov 2006 20:34:44 +0000

[...] FeedCycle: Smarter Serialized Stories FeedCycle looks like a neat way to serialize content in an RSS feed. (tags: RSS Web-2.0 Web-Services Blog-Topic blogging) [...]

By: use more...waste less!

use more...waste less! — Mon, 27 Nov 2006 19:32:59 +0000

Yes!!! Another RSS feed thingy!!! The world can always use another one of these!!!

By: Patricia

Patricia — Mon, 27 Nov 2006 19:05:50 +0000

^ I know. I know that Web 2.0 has a lot of these areas involved in it, but is everybody really playing in just these few little areas? I loved finding out about image/likeness search from Like.com, I thought it was interesting that women-focused sites were starting to get funding and draw attention for a bit there, I just read about a new search site that mirrors how the brain thinks (or something like that), I love AJAX and what’s going on around it - doesn’t this stuff count as Web 2.0 or no?

lol. I love the idea of dueling tech bubbles. hehe.

By: Drama 2.0

Drama 2.0 — Mon, 27 Nov 2006 18:49:22 +0000

That’s pretty much Web 2.0 Patricia. I think everybody’s ready for Web 3.0 and it would be truly innovative of the VCs to start another bubble before the previous one has burst. Think of it. Bubbles competing against each other. We could even do mashups between Web 2.0 and Web 3.0 sites! Exciting times we live in!

By: Patricia

Patricia — Mon, 27 Nov 2006 18:44:13 +0000

I wish somebody would cover companies outside of the same five Web 2.0 topics everybody seems to constantly cover, aka, social networking, anything related to video, photo, digg-style technologies, blogs, blog aggregators, blog grouping sites, etc. There has got to be more to tech right now than these topics.

By: Steve

Steve — Mon, 27 Nov 2006 18:26:22 +0000

New story please.

By: Serialized RSS Feeds Provided by FeedCycle. » derrich.com

Serialized RSS Feeds Provided by FeedCycle. » derrich.com — Mon, 27 Nov 2006 15:43:22 +0000

[...] Now is a good time as any to get started using FeedCycle on your blog. They are having a Christmas RSS Competition based on the Christmas carol, The Twelve Days of Christmas. It falls naturally into 12 parts you can use the capabilities of FeedCycle to distribute, on a daily basis, a new verse from the carol. Cash prizes are being offered for 1st and 2nd place. Visit FeedCycle for more information about the contest…and visit TechCrunch for its in depth analysis of FeedCycle. [...]

By: InViN

InViN — Mon, 27 Nov 2006 12:18:24 +0000

I don’t like their UI, and the idea of serialised RSS isn’t striking my interest anyway.

I’d rather focus on mobile RSS.

Btw, there’s a press release on my company that I’d like to share here.
http://www.myth200.com/wudi/?p=67

By: carl rahn griffith

carl rahn griffith — Mon, 27 Nov 2006 10:53:22 +0000

good grief, that’s one ugly home page they’ve got … shame, because conceptually this is rather interesting perspective on the use of RSS - which is relevant to some of our own ideas under development, but from a business context.

By: Adrian

Adrian — Mon, 27 Nov 2006 10:38:18 +0000

Sounds great!

By: People Finder

People Finder — Mon, 27 Nov 2006 09:22:43 +0000

Drama 2.0 brings up som interesting points. I have to agree.

By: Stefanos Karagos

Stefanos Karagos — Mon, 27 Nov 2006 08:55:34 +0000

Another one buzz-thing…
Is this a service worth to mention?

By: Drama 2.0

Drama 2.0 — Mon, 27 Nov 2006 07:47:30 +0000

I’m getting really concerned about Web 2.0. If this is interesting enough to make it to TechCrunch, what is that saying about the market? It seems like TechCrunch is more frequently rehashing topics related to “mature” Web 2.0 companies like Digg and is reviewing new startups that have low mainstream appeal and in some cases, are quite esoteric.

I hope that VCs are not starting to receive executive summaries that begin:

Ever wanted to read War and Peace but didn’t have the time? How about if you could be fed 2 chapters each day for 6 months? That’s right. This is now possible using an innovative application of RSS technology by FeedCycle. FeedCycle provides a cutting-edge RSS solution for non temporally-bound online communicators. The company’s proprietary patent-pending Cyclic Web Feed technology (or CWF), revolutionizes the concept of serialised RSS web feeds and is poised to take a market leadership role in the RSS industry, which research firm Some Research Firm estimates grew by 125% last year. The firm estimates that by 2010, 100 million people will be using RSS on a daily basis and that revenues will reach $1 billion.

Sorry, but anytime I see phases like “non temporally-bound online communicators” I can’t help but have flashbacks to the JavaScript bullshit generators used by entrepreneurs to craft their business plans back in Bubble 1.0. There is hope, however. At least this wasn’t an announcement that FeedCycle had raised $10 million.

By: Pramit Singh

Pramit Singh — Mon, 27 Nov 2006 07:32:26 +0000

Nice idea. RSS is slowly capturing a bigger ground.

By: TechCrunch Japanese アーカイブ » FeedCycle、連載記事をスマートにフィード

TechCrunch Japanese アーカイブ » FeedCycle、連載記事をスマートにフィード — Mon, 27 Nov 2006 06:02:08 +0000

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By: Tim

Tim — Mon, 27 Nov 2006 05:50:57 +0000

Yes Peter is right. there is no question of feedburner. Can you explain if feedburner can be used with this anyway.

By: Peter Cooper

Peter Cooper — Mon, 27 Nov 2006 04:35:36 +0000

Excellent! I first threw this idea out there 15 months ago, and I’m so glad someone’s finally released something that does it (being too lazy to do it myself :)). It’s also nice to see another RSS tool out of the UK.

Mike: “all subscribers then start by receiving the first item in a feed regardless of when they subscribe” .. this probably means FeedBurner is out of the question, since I think FeedBurner only keep the copy of the feed *they* see in each case.

By: FeedCycle « Technically Speaking

FeedCycle « Technically Speaking — Mon, 27 Nov 2006 02:10:28 +0000

[...] FeedCycle, is a way for RSS to distribute in an orderly fashion. Do I think there is a need for this? No. I use RSS to get the latest and newest news on whatever feed I subscribe too. Read their description of what serialised or cyclic feed is. Read a more in depth spin on this. [...]