One pilot implementer is excited about the possibilities. "I subscribe to 150 sites that I'm monitoring in NewsGator," said Jennifer Klyse, enterprise applications analyst at Patton Boggs, a large law firm based in Washington. "Many of the sites have an option to subscribe to their e-mail newsletter, but I don't want that in my in-box, [and] I don't want it on my BlackBerry."
Klyse has set up a small pilot project with a handful of people at Patton Boggs to test whether RSS feeds should be rolled out to all of the company's 366 attorneys and their support staff.
"Some of the attorneys might want to hear about news on patents relating to wireless technology," Klyse said. "They could do a search in Google for 'wireless technology patents,' but they'd have to remember to do that." Using RSS feeds, the attorneys can get a steady stream of stories from sources that analyze just this topic.