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Use Of Rss Feeds To Push The Online Content To Users, Dan Ma
Use Of Rss Feeds To Push The Online Content To Users, Dan Ma
Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems
Many websites use Really Simple Syndication (RSS) feeds to actively push their online content to users rather than waiting for users to pull the content passively. In this paper, I construct a theoretical game model to study the profitability of an RSS-PUSH delivery mechanism. The model assumes a general profit structure for websites and heterogeneous users. To access valuable online content, users incur a variety of costs. They choose either to visit the website in the conventional way (the PULL model) or, if it is supported by the website, to use RSS (the PUSH model). Interestingly, I show that although …