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by breischl 4422 days ago
I don't think there's ever been much market for RSS as such, because RSS is just a means to an end. Companies, particularly big ones, are constantly trying to improve internal communications. Think HR newsletters, IT updates (we're upgrading to Windows XP! [hey, they're enterprises]), the CEO's newsletter, version 27 of internal tool Foo is being released and what it means to you, whatever. They want better internal communications and it looked like RSS could help, so they bought it.

NewsGator (now Sitrion) still does this with Social Sites, they just do it as a Facebook-ish newsfeed rather than as an RSS reader. Same goal, different implementation.