Outlook to Include RSS Reader
Michael Affronti, Program Manager for Microsoft Office Outlook, is working on RSS, Instant Search, and Sharing technologies for Outlook. Recently in his blog search.subscribe.share he talks about integrating RSS feed aggregation inside a future version of Outlook. See his two posts:
RSS Aggregation – Part 1: The Partnership (Dec. 22/05)
RSS Aggregation – Part 2: Our Implementation (Jan. 3/05)
Could this be the application that will bring RSS and feed reading over into the mainstream? Providing it is kept elegant and simple, I think it might be. Looks like he takes comments over at his blog, so head over and give him some feedback!
I don’t recall exactly where I first heard about this, although Sabrini Pacifici reported on this initially in her blog beSpacific.
Cindy Chick has a similar post up today.
Do you want it in your browser or your email client? I’m a web guy, and ‘I think’ I want it in my browser (check again tomorrow…). One thing that is clear, law firms are going to have to put an enterprise solution in place if they want to be reading internal behind-the-firewall RSS feeds.
The feedback I am hearing from our lawyers is that they “live” in their email app (I.e. Outlook) so if anything is going to integrate into their work processes, it had better be via Outlook.
Plus, you are kind of exceptional, Steve. 8-)
How can law firms let their lawyers use Outlook, which has to be the biggest target ever — and the biggest vector — for viruses? That apart, I’d guess Connie’s right: email’s where it’s at. I wonder if they’ll understand the distinction? Is it worth maintaining that there is a distinction? Too many questions: it’s Saturday and I’m fresh out of answers.