Blog Tuesday January 6
Eric Gundersen
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Eric is President of Development Seed, an online strategy shop in Washington, DC. Eric has developed communications strategies and tools for organizations around the world, ranging from international development organizations to major media outlets. Recently he has been mapping food security projects in Africa, developing the intranet at the World Bank for their international communications team, and building decentralized data collection tools to survey public health organizations' capacity to respond to bird flu outbreak on the ground in Southeast Asia.

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Yahoo Adds RSS Email Folder
Nov 30, 2005
by Eric Gundersen

A lot more people will be looking for your RSS feed now that Yahoo announced it is having RSS show up in a new email folder. This sounds a lot like how Thunderbird operates as a newsreader.

Making RSS easier for people to manage will add to the already "millions of users: that Yahoo says use its service and will surely increase the number of people using RSS too.

If you want to read a good background report on RSS' current penetration, I think Yahoo's own whitepaper on this, "RSS-Crossing into the Mainstream" (pdf) is worth the read. The coolest figure is that of the 31% of RSS users, only 4% knowingly use RSS opposed to 27% who use it unknowingly.

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2 Comments
Why are anon users allowed to submit content?
Dec 2, 2005
Varun

Why are anonymous (untrusted) users allowed to submit content? Your access permissions seem to be misconfigured.

I went to
http://www.developmentseed.org/blog/node/add/story
and found that I could submit content if I wanted to.

Or is this intentional?

Not misconfigured at all. We
Dec 3, 2005
Seed Friend

Not misconfigured at all. We like
having an open community and in the past we have used the 'story'
functionality for anonymous to add content to the site, just like we
let anonymous users comment. Thank you for looking for bugs for us .