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Alexa is a little-known search company owned by Amazon, which is primarily used by search marketers as a basic statistics provider.
So far only 4 percent of those polled say they use RSS (really simple syndication). Yahoo Senior Director of Personalization Products, Scott Gatz, says that number should be closer to 27 percent, as many use RSS and don't know it. Yahoo began publishing RSS feeds via Yahoo News and Yahoo Buzz back in 2003.
Joint collaboration on a Reliable, Adaptive and Distributive Systems lab at UC-Berkeley has the three tech companies contributing $7.5 million toward the lab's mission of creating freely-available web services.
One of the topics Shel and I discussed with Rick Klau of FeedBurner during our FIR podcast interview with him on Tuesday was about the challenges of helping 'normal' people understand what RSS is.
A lot has been made in the last couple days over Sun Microsystems President Jonathan Schwartz's assertion that "intranets are going to die."
On Tuesday, Menlo Park-based Sun announced they would bundle the Apache Derby embedded database into their Java Enterprise System. They're also including an additional plug-in for support called NetBeans IDE 5.0.
