Marc Hedlund: Use the term that people know -- RSS -- and don't force them to learn yet another new term -- XML -- along the way. I'd still love a better solution, though.
Randy: A lot of people have been thinking about RSS subscription this year. I suspect we're on track to solving the problem by the end of the year, or whenever IE7 is released
I think everybody agrees that (proper) autodiscovery in IE is the solution, but there are other solutions that make subscribing easier. Here's my top 10.
- Autodiscovery
- USM
- What is this?
- Chicklets
- Subscribe link text
- Subscription Chicklets
- Rmail
- FeedBurner
- Chicklets
- Feed URI Scheme
Honestly, if you are not using a majority of these techniques, then you are losing subscribers.