Trying Google Reader
I’ve been trying “Google Reader”:http://www.google.com/reader for the last couple weeks, and I really like it. The interface is very clean, and it’s taken very little time to get used to as my primary feed reading app. There’s also a “mobile version”:http://www.google.com/reader/m, which renders very quickly on my Treo.
One nice feature is the ’share’ button at [...]
IE7 Shipping - a comment on the stylesheet
Fred “notes”:http://avc.blogs.com/a_vc/2006/10/is_anyone_else_.html that IE7’s default behavior is to ignore a publisher’s XSLT stylesheet (if the publisher has pointed to one, which the vast majority of FeedBurner publishers have done), and he’s not exactly thrilled about this.
While poking around my computer config the other day, I noticed a new setting in “Internet Options” that addresses Fred’s [...]
Update on Outlook 2007 and RSS support
Thanks to “Patrick Schmid”:http://pschmid.net/blog/, a Microsoft MVP, we recently discovered that Outlook 2007 “doesn’t reveal itself in its user agent”:http://pschmid.net/blog/2006/10/10/61 when requesting RSS feeds. It instead shows up as Internet Explorer 7. Microsoft has more details “here”:http://blogs.msdn.com/michael_affronti/archive/2006/10/10/RSS-_2600_-the-user_2D00_agent-string.aspx.
While I’m not thrilled with the current state of affairs, I’m grateful to Patrick for identifying the original issue [...]
Added a comments feed
I can’t really think of a good reason that I didn’t offer this before, but for those who care: you may now subscribe to the “comments”:http://feeds.feedburner.com/tins/comments that others make on this site. If you’re a regular reader in the aggregator, you may miss some good conversations that happen when others stop by and leave a [...]
Lost Podcast
Two TV shows really set the bar last year for their use of podcasts to connect with fans: Sci-Fi’s Battlestar Galactica (season premiere tonight!) and ABC’s Lost. In the Lost podcast, I “remarked”:http://www.rklau.com/tins/archives/2006/04/06/five_podcasts_i_cant_live_without.php this spring that “this podcast tells you about connections that even the most die-hard of Lost fans wouldn’t have caught. (OK, maybe [...]
Firefox 2 Feed Support
I downloaded and installed “Firefox 2 RC1″:http://www.mozilla.org/projects/bonecho/all-rc.html last night, and on the balance I’m really impressed. The memory handling seems (so far) to be vastly improved over Firefox 1.x (I’ve had to kill the app pretty much once/day because of memory leaks). The UI is much more visually appealing, and they appear to have done [...]
Use FeedBurner for your mobile-friendly site
Ed Vielmetti “asked”:http://vielmetti.typepad.com/vacuum/2006/08/feedburner_mobi.html how FeedBurner can help you create a mobile-friendly site. Little did he know, this is one of the easiest things we can do for you. In fact, I’ve had it “on my site”:http://www.rklau.com/tins/mobile.html for a while now, and forgot to document it. Thanks for the reminder, Ed!
Our “BuzzBoost”:http://www.feedburner.com/fb/a/publishers/buzzboost feature lets you create [...]
WordPress bug
OK, tech amigos. A very helpful reader pointed out (rather ironically, given my “day job”:http://www.feedburner.com/) that my “archive of RSS posts”:http://www.rklau.com/tins/archives/category/technology/rss/ is busted. Why? Because WordPress is hard-wired to render anything that ends in “/rss” as a feed… even though, in this case, the _category_ is RSS, it’s seeing “/rss” as an operator on the [...]
TypePad now integrated with FeedBurner
The very first week I joined FeedBurner, I talked with several friends who resisted using FeedBurner because they already had subscribers to their TypePad feed, and didn’t want subscribers scattered in multiple places. Tonight, that’s a thing of the past. Over at the Six Apart blog, Michael Sippey shares the “details”:http://www.sixapart.com/typepad/news/2006/06/typepad_and_feedburner.html about the integration; both [...]
Feeding Geffen
I’m really excited to announce our latest customer over at FeedBurner, “Geffen Records”:http://www.geffen.com/. I wrote about it over on “the company blog”:http://blogs.feedburner.com/feedburner/archives/002773.html, and apparently this new strategy has already lead to at least one “album sale”:http://www.sortanalytics.com/sort/2006/06/takk.html. Sometimes it really is that easy!
Here’s why I think what Geffen’s doing is important: instead of trying to ignore [...]
