The reason this is so low is probably because the majority of Mom & Pop internet users does not know how to get an RSS feed to their computer. If AOL adds some mega big RSS reading mechanism, then the technology will be readily adopted.
Your 'average' internet user does not know the technologies underlying how that webpage gets to their browser(thus the abundance of spyware and virii in the wild, but I won't go there more than this little jab).
I know some may hate their service, but Yahoo in my opinion has done this right. I get every feed I want from News to shopping deals to my sports teams latest info all on one page along with my personal calendar, my spam email account, my weather, and my TV listings. This one stop shop has greatly reduced the amount of time I spend navigating across 20 some bookmarks to get information.
I just wish RSS was a little more flexible to where I could be the one to determine how the 'query' was being done to get the articles.
The fact that most RSS syndicators pre-feed their news actually requires me to go get more content than I want.
After seeing a Squeezebox player owned by one of my friends, I decided to research streaming music player HW. For 1/2 the price of the Squeezebox I decided to purchase a Roku Soundbridge M500(this model is LED display based, but there's a m1000 that's the same thing as the Squeezebox for $179.000 - I just went the cheaper router).
I was also considering cheaper route of buying an Airport Express since I'm a Mac user too, but decided from Roku's product info that it'd be a better choice because it had the remote and display of the song playing + Internet Radio(w/o needing your computers on), unlike the Airport Express.
I got my http://www.rokulabs.com/ Roku a week ago for $100 off of e-Bay and it has been awesome. The only caveat to my experience is that my router was not the best one for working with the Roku, but as a geek I was able to telnet into the sucker and use the posted workarounds on Rokus helpful forums and get things working. The Roku is better because it supports native iTunes sharing so my music was automatically available after I got the Roku setup, including my 35 playlists for different settings. All 3 machines in my household: my 15"Powerbook Mac, my wife's Dell Laptop, and my eMachine desktop were able to share their tunes to the Roku within minutes. The Roku also supports Slimserver and Windows Media connectivity and Music Match Jukebox.
Overall, the native Mac OSX and iTunes support is what sold me. You can even use the mac to go to a webpage and control your Roku or even telnet into the device to edit the preset Internet Radio stations, or just import a playlist from iTunes of radio stations. If you're a Mac OSX use, ditch the Squeeze and get a Roku.
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The reason this is so low is probably because the majority of Mom & Pop internet users does not know how to get an RSS feed to their computer. If AOL adds some mega big RSS reading mechanism, then the technology will be readily adopted. Your 'average' internet user does not know the technologies underlying how that webpage gets to their browser(thus the abundance of spyware and virii in the wild, but I won't go there more than this little jab). I know some may hate their service, but Yahoo in my opinion has done this right. I get every feed I want from News to shopping deals to my sports teams latest info all on one page along with my personal calendar, my spam email account, my weather, and my TV listings. This one stop shop has greatly reduced the amount of time I spend navigating across 20 some bookmarks to get information. I just wish RSS was a little more flexible to where I could be the one to determine how the 'query' was being done to get the articles. The fact that most RSS syndicators pre-feed their news actually requires me to go get more content than I want.
After seeing a Squeezebox player owned by one of my friends, I decided to research streaming music player HW. For 1/2 the price of the Squeezebox I decided to purchase a Roku Soundbridge M500(this model is LED display based, but there's a m1000 that's the same thing as the Squeezebox for $179.000 - I just went the cheaper router).
I was also considering cheaper route of buying an Airport Express since I'm a Mac user too, but decided from Roku's product info that it'd be a better choice because it had the remote and display of the song playing + Internet Radio(w/o needing your computers on), unlike the Airport Express.
I got my http://www.rokulabs.com/ Roku a week ago for $100 off of e-Bay and it has been awesome. The only caveat to my experience is that my router was not the best one for working with the Roku, but as a geek I was able to telnet into the sucker and use the posted workarounds on Rokus helpful forums and get things working. The Roku is better because it supports native iTunes sharing so my music was automatically available after I got the Roku setup, including my 35 playlists for different settings. All 3 machines in my household: my 15"Powerbook Mac, my wife's Dell Laptop, and my eMachine desktop were able to share their tunes to the Roku within minutes. The Roku also supports Slimserver and Windows Media connectivity and Music Match Jukebox.
Overall, the native Mac OSX and iTunes support is what sold me. You can even use the mac to go to a webpage and control your Roku or even telnet into the device to edit the preset Internet Radio stations, or just import a playlist from iTunes of radio stations. If you're a Mac OSX use, ditch the Squeeze and get a Roku.