Comments on: Did Sequoia Invest in SimpleFeed?

By: craig

craig — Wed, 14 Sep 2005 15:21:01 +0000

Sequoia also in on iKanos, which is in NYC this week for a roadshow. Om any thoughts or have you looked at iKanos? Looks promising in my view. Here is a quick overview of them:

http://techstockblog.blogspot.com/2005/09/ikanos-next-broadcom.html

By: SiliconBeat

SiliconBeat — Tue, 13 Sep 2005 17:57:07 +0000

The vanishing RSS company, SimpleFeed

Om Malik reported a couple of days ago that one of Silicon Valley’s top investors, Sequoia Capital, had invested in a company called SimpleFeed, a Los Altos start-up that uses RSS as a marketing tool. It looks to be a competitor to Feedburner, he says…

By: Rafat

Rafat — Tue, 13 Sep 2005 04:59:46 +0000

Sequoia has taken the name down now from the page you mentioned…not sure why, if they have invested.

By: Ash

Ash — Mon, 12 Sep 2005 19:58:27 +0000

Automated subscription is what it is all about.

By: Mark Sigal

Mark Sigal — Mon, 12 Sep 2005 18:20:59 +0000

For what it is worth, some time back I wrote a blog for O’Reilly on an application concept called Cornerscreen that is the marriage of RSS and Pointcast. Speaks pretty directly to Winer’s assertion that RSS is automated web surfing, and the market implications as well.

Check out the URL if interested: http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/wlg/7219

p.s. on that site is another post that I wrote that envisions RSS as a core Web 2.0 platform.

By: dan primack

dan primack — Mon, 12 Sep 2005 15:38:20 +0000

yup… sequoia led a $1.02 million series a deal back in june…

By: Gregory Hoyl Jr.

Gregory Hoyl Jr. — Mon, 12 Sep 2005 11:50:52 +0000

There has been interesting news about SimpleFeed and secure RSS feeds (together with a company called Reactivity):
http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1855477,00.asp?kc=EWRSS03119TX1K0000594

Cheers!