Comments on: FeedPass do not republish our feeds!

By: Jeremy Emberling

Jeremy Emberling — Sun, 21 May 2006 18:07:53 +0000

Well, Mr. Woolley,
Why not allow people to claim their RSS feed like many other services have? Google has a great system set up for their sitemap service that makes you actually but a randomly named html file on your site to verify you actually own the site. This may be a pain, but it is a great idea to protect the site’s owner’s content from being stolen.
I think the idea of your service is great, but I would hate it if I found out someone else was making money off of my blog, when I don’t even get money like it is off my ads.
I don’t care what all the big name bloggers say about your service, honestly. I’m 17, and my blog is more or less a laid back blog and I have made a total of $8 from my AdSense campaign that I started in early 2005. Now I had a problem before with porn sites stealing my RSS feed and using a parser to steal Google search returns from me and then use their own ads to make money off of my work.
There was really nothing I could do except block their server’s IP and it stopped. But what I’m getting at is that your kinda making it too easy for these guys to do this all over again. I would suggest a Google-like verification system or make the person register at least to use the adsense code.
Your getting a lot of heat it sounds like, so I would think about listening to these guys, they have a good following, ya know.

By: Jim Woolley

Jim Woolley — Sun, 21 May 2006 10:22:26 +0000

Actually, Jeremy. Claiming the feed doesn't make it so no one else can use it. Claiming the feed simply ensures that you, as content owner, get credit for AdSense views if someone else creates a feedpass page that points to your feed. Seems like there is a little controversy around this and the great people at GeekNewsCentral may be jumping to some conclusions. However, we are still removing them so that no feedpass pages can be created for any GeekNewsCentral.com feeds. Just to clarify, however, feedpass is built to drive subscriptions. Our pages don't contain full feeds, only previews of the last 4 items. We just make it incredibly easy to subscribe. And, we provide financial incentive to anyone who creates a feedpass, and the content owner. There's some very interesting discussion around this that started with Marshall Kirkpatrick and then was picked up further by Dave Winer (Scripting News) and even Michael Arrington of TechCrunch fame. Here's the link: http://socialsoftware.weblogsinc.com/2006/05/19/feedpass-makes-rss-subscription-and-monetizing-other-peoples-co Jim Feedpass

By: Jeremy Emberling

Jeremy Emberling — Sun, 21 May 2006 09:56:30 +0000

Tood, if you register, it allows you to claim your feed so no one else can use it.

By: Jeremy Emberling

Jeremy Emberling — Sun, 21 May 2006 09:56:30 +0000

Tood, if you register, it allows you to claim your feed so no one else can use it.