New service opportunity.

Description

Companies try differentiate from his competitors by prividing better services. This triggers the trend of using RSS by commercial websites in the beginning. Or the web-service like amazone, ebay, MyYahoo, Gmail ... are provided. Companies are also using podcasts as a way to distribute their multimedia news to journalists and consumers.

Enablers

• RSS is very simple to use, as its name said: RSS = Really Simple Syndication.
• Podcasts.

Inhibitors

• Not everyone have fast and cheap connection yet.

Paradigm

• A way for people and organizations to avoid regulatory bodies, such as the British Ofcom, that would not allow a program to be broadcast in traditional media.
• A way for news organizations to distribute audio or video as an addition to their existing text (or mostly text) news products

Timing

around year 2000.

Resource

• For more information about RSS click here.