SubscribeFeedSky: More Than a China’s Feedburner
FeedSky is a Beijing-based startup who provides feed management service for bloggers, website masters and other kinds of web publishers. FeedSky’s feed management is almost as famous as Feedburner in China’s blogosphere, though number of Feedsky users is still less than those of Feedburner due to the first-mover advantages.
Similar to Feedburner, FeedSky turns any valid RSS or Atom feed into a FeedSky hosted feed, which is compatible with almost any kinds of RSS readers. As your feed manager, Feedsky provide the same service as Feedburner, including:
- Short and fixed URL for feeds, you don’t lose your subscribers when you change your original feed address;
- Detailed subscription statistics on both feed and post level;
- Easy to add social bookmarking items (for example, your del.icio.us bookmarking), images (maybe your Flickr photos), and even podcasting into your feed, only if these third-party services are RSS-enabled;
- User-friendly RSS page, instead of dizzy xml code, like this; and
- Smoothily transition to your original feed, if you decide to quit their service.
In FeedSky, you can even merge several blog feeds into a single FeedSky feed, a feature not available in Feedburner. However, due to the underdeveloped longtail online advertising market in China, FeedSky has yet provide RSS advertising services. And unlike Feedburner, FeedSky now only provide free services to bloggers and publishers, no premier service is available so far.
FeedSky has signed exclusive contracts to cooperate with Blogcn and Blogbus, two major Blog Service Provider(BSP) in China, to manage their over a million RSS feeds. While Feedburner also makes a presence in potential China market, they cooperated with Bokee.com, another major BSP to provide RSS management service for Bokee’s users, the service is to be launched soon. Feedburner is so successful in US and European markets, but in China, FeedSky will be its significant competitor, a competitor can not neglect.
But FeedSky is not only a China’s Feedburner, they provide feed directory and social networking service as well.
- Feed Directory: A FeedSky feed is added into the directory once it is created, and the feed owner can tag the feed freely.
- Social Networking: In FeedSky, a user can add other users as contacts, label any feed as favorite and set up group freely to discuss any topics, similar to those functions in Flickr.
What FeedSky want is more than a China’s Feedburner, but I believe it is not easy for them to combine feed management service with those social networking features integrately, and give more incentive to users to make connection and discussion in FeedSky. Improvment is also required in UI design and user experience, which their team is working on.
Related Links: (All in Chinese)
FeedSky Blog
Blog of FeedSky’s CEO
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