Online Content: RSS Investors Announces Creation of $100 Million Technology Fund
02 Jul 2005 12:43 GMT


(From Content-Wire)

Leading Technology Experts, Internet Pioneers and Venture Capitalists to Support RSS-Related Internet Technology Companies

RSS Investors, LP, today announced the creation of the first investment fund specializing in companies based on the Really Simple Syndication (RSS) family of standards and services. This technology includes OPML and the newly proposed Microsoft extensions to RSS and is rapidly becoming integral to the next generation of Internet technology. The fund, will focus on supporting and nurturing the technologies and leaders who are championing RSS-related technologies, including news aggregation, blogs and new classes of search engines. In addition to examining technologies that utilize RSS for news aggregation, RSS Investors will strongly pursue RSS applications that aggregate data, particularly in the financial and medical industries.

Increasingly, individuals are connecting on a global level due, primarily, to the Internet and new communication tools like RSS and blogs. For the first time in history, people who share points of view can communicate around the world in real-time to exchange and build ideas. Recognizing the economic opportunities growing from the next generation of Internet tools, the mission of RSS Investors is to support the growth of these borderless communities built on collective thoughts and goals.

Vis-a-vis the above, does anybody have experience with the ms product or the cymphony? Recommendation? Horror stories? Does it pay to manage content this way?