Categorization of RSS Vendors:
Publisher Services
Sub-categories: Content; Analytics; Feed Mgmt; Advertising
Examples: Feedburner; Nooked; Pheedo; SimpleFeed; Syndicate IQ
Reader Services (including RSS Aggregators and Consumer services/tools)
Sub-categories: Web-based; Desktop; Mobile; Enterprise; White Label
Examples: Bloglines; Del.icio.us; Moreover; Newsgator; PubSub
CMS/Blogging
Sub-categories: Hosted; Standalone; Enterprise
Examples: Blogger; MSN Spaces; Six Apart; Wordpress; Yahoo 360
Content (including Podcasting, blog networks, news directories)
Sub-categories: Proprietary; User-Generated
Examples: Gawker; iPodder; Odeo; Topix.net; Weblogsinc
Search
Sub-categories: Index; White Label / Microsites (e.g. Technorati Live8 promotion); Embedded (e.g. Google network and Technorati partnership with Newsweek); Market Research
Examples: Bloglines; Feedster; Google; Ice Rocket; Technorati
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Microsoft and Google have both developed prototype RSS Aggregator products - start.com and Google Personalized Homepage respectively...
The Big 3 also have CMS/Blogging, Content and Search ...
... Which leads me to believe that the great opportunity of The RSS Space is in the 'Publisher Services' category
A public wiki tries to categorize RSS vendors here.
The Big 3, Microsoft, Yahoo and Google do have products in almost every category? So what does it hold for startups related to RSS? I think RSS in one way or the other is going to penetrate every part of computing infrastructure. Microsoft has taken a strong lead by making it an explicit part of Longhorn. Time will tell what's the next google that comes out from RSS. I believe its still in infancy.
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