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RSS Tops List of Web 2.0 Tools, Survey Finds
August 13, 2007 (Computerworld) -- In the world of Web 2.0 technologies, not all tools provide equal value to users.
According to a recent survey of 275 IT managers by Forrester
Research, for example, Real Simple Syndication readers are the most
valuable Web 2.0 tool of them all. Of the survey respondents, 61% said
that RSS technology provides value to their companies.
William Hayes, associate director of library and literature
informatics at Biogen Idec, said that using RSS tools to their full
potential can help expand a company’s internal use of blogs, wikis or
online forums.
RSS, he explained, channels information into different queues so end
users can prioritize data more easily than if it is just dumped on them
via e-mail.
“With e-mail, you get this never-ending flow of information,
which pushes the items you want to follow up on below the fold,” Hayes
said. “As soon as that happens, it disappears for most people.”
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