John Palfrey

Last May, TechCrunch wrote the obit for RSS. Yesterday, after Feedburner founder Dick Costolo became COO of Twitter, the blog danced on RSS’ grave. Today, PEHub wonders what that means for RSS Investors, a Cambridge-based private equity firm started by John Palfrey in 2005.

Palfrey tells PEHub:

“We never officially dissolved the fund, but we stopped making investments and everyone’s moved on to other things,” said Palfrey, who now teaches law at Harvard and is a venture executive with Highland Capital Partners. “The only active investment we have left is StyleFeeder, here in Cambridge.”

In February 2008, StyleFeeder, a Cambridge company spun out of a holding company, Top Ten Media, formed by Palfrey, landed a $2 million Series A round of venture capital from Highland Capital Partners.

RSS investors might be gone, but Palfrey has plenty to keep himself busy — he’s an author, and a venture executive at Highland, as well as a law professor, vice dean for library and information resources, and co-director of the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard.