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by James Robertson.
Original Post: RSS To Email: The Syndication Breakout
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Rogers Cadenhead notices an interesting bit of syndication news:
The largest email-based RSS service was sold to NBC Universal this week, an event that's curiously absent from the tech press. Randy Charles Morin's R-Mail was purchased by the entertainment network for an undisclosed amount.
The service has 50,000 users, 100,000 subscriptions and sends out more than 50,000 e-mails per day, according to DMW Daily , though I suspect a zero's missing from the last figure. When I wrote about R-Mail last August , it had 20,000 users.
This kind of thing could be the breakout from niche to general that syndication advocates (myself included) have been expecting. An awful lot of corporate staff "live" in email - and this is an easy way to reach them.
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