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Saturday, August 25th, 2007I found out about FeedM8 recently and describe it in my post on blognation Canada. So part of the process is to “verify” my feed. A good step. There are enough blog scrapers out there, we don’t need another way for people to make money from our content!
The button above is for mobile users [...]
Will Plaxo’s approach to a more open social network be a real alternative to Facebook?
Monday, August 6th, 2007Last week C|Net was one of many folks hinting, or out right saying, that Plaxo was going to announce/launch a social networking site today. As you know by now, Plaxo’s Pulse is out today:
Pulse will likely give a considerable advantage to Plaxo in that it puts a friendlier face to a networking site that, as [...]
Might be too early for mainstream RSS, but has e-mail become passe too?
Saturday, July 21st, 2007Yeah I live in an RSS-centric world. If I don’t read my feeds every day not only is the task that much harder the next day, I feel disconnected from my friends, the news, pretty much my world. I get a lot of info via RSS, but not all. E-mail, in spite of its shortcomings, [...]
Reduce the flood of your RSS feeds with aideRSS
Saturday, July 21st, 2007I started trying aideRSS last week. I got into the private beta by begging, erm, asking after reading Rob Hydman’s post about RSS readers. After a week what’s the word? Awesome. I resisted posting this right away, well because I thought I might be wrong with my first impression. I wasn’t. If you’ve visited my site [...]
Whew, Live Writer and FeedDemon working with the new blog
Sunday, July 8th, 2007Okay, we’re almost there. FeedDemon and Live Writer are finally working with the new blog (yay!). I think the magic of ipconfig /flushdns with the apps closed finally did it. Now if FeedBurner would recognize the feed.
If they don’t…well I might just drop them. I hate to do it, I love all the goodies I [...]
I'd like an offline option for Google Reader
Saturday, February 17th, 2007I've been using Google Reader for a while now. Didn't think I'd like it, but yeah, I do. The only thing that bugs me is that when I have to be offline, there isn't an option for checking feeds.
Yes, I know it's a web-based reader. I know that offline isn't a big thing and if [...]
Scoble put one of my posts on his shared items–implications for marketing and metrics
Wednesday, January 17th, 2007Recently I wrote about why newspapers don't (and should) own local news, Scoble included it on his shared items in Google Reader (feed … you should subscribe to it really). Okay this is great, right? Right. The “Scoble effect” is well known if he links to you, but it's not as well known what happens [...]
Trying a little feed and stats experiment
Thursday, January 11th, 2007As you know I'm a total stats junkie. Well I've noticed a big difference between my page views (dominated by very old posts found via search) and my feed (all new posts, of course). So I've trimmed my feed output to 400 characters. I'd just like to see over the next couple days what happens.
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Thinking of going the link blog route, interested?
Wednesday, January 10th, 2007Hey it works for Scoble (here is the link to his). People seem to like to read what he's reading. Things that he finds interesting. You know, sounds like a good plan. Hey I have about 380 feeds I check (I trimmed a bit recently … like today), I go through tons of articles, heck [...]
FeedBurner launches integrated site stats via BlogBeat
Thursday, January 4th, 2007Since the Pay-Per-Post—Performancing announcement and my move to use the pre-launch FB stats, I've been waiting to give my review of the service. Well Rick Klau pinged me this morning to let me know that the teasing is over, and the BlogBeat-powered stats are now available for everyone!
Before I get into my review of the [...]
Google Reader digging Digg's grave? Or is Digg doing that itself?
Thursday, December 28th, 2006Could Google Reader, or any web-based RSS reader for that matter, become a Digg replacement? Digg has been pretty controversial of late, with wholesale banning of some domains with little or no explanation, so looking for it's replacement, something more democratic maybe, is getting some brain cells working overtime.
Started, I presume, by usr/bin/geek, then echoed [...]
Listen to podcasts on your cell phone? Um, no thanks.
Monday, November 13th, 2006I don't get this. Two services launched recently, Podlinez and Fonpods, as announced by Techcrunch, that allow people to listen to podcasts on their cell phones. Maybe I'm just behind the times, but I don't understand why you'd want to do this. Given the commercials I see on TV, using up one's cell phone minutes [...]
What's hot in RSS readers: email
Thursday, November 2nd, 2006Lee Oden as an article on WebProNews that should give all us RSS junkies some pause. Lee looked at the RSS reader stats on FeedBurner lately and found something interesting: the number three way people get the articles from is blog is e-mail. Yes, e-mail. I took the data only for the last month, but [...]
Is Pluck's closure really a sign of the times?
Tuesday, October 31st, 2006Pluck has decided to close down its RSS reader in favour of its other properties like BlogBurst. There has been a huge amount of discussion about this, mostly focusing on this as the beginning of the end of for-pay RSS readers. (Kevin, Stowe, T. David, Bloggers Blog, Mathew, Blog Herald, Read/Write Web, WebProNews). While [...]
IE7 is out, will the RSS rush start now?
Thursday, October 19th, 2006You've heard the news, IE7 was officially released yesterday (MSDN, Bloggers Blog). Already there are new plugins and add-ons for IE7 users to take advantage of the new RSS capabilities. I used to make sure Attensa was synced with the Common Feed List, but I turned that off (I think I'll turn it back on [...]
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