Blogbeat integration around the corner
Steve “pointed”:http://www.burningdoor.com/lineofsite/archives/2006/12/being_peter_kim.html to a “great writeup”:http://www.beingpeterkim.com/2006/12/blog_analytics.html by Peter Kim about how much he likes Blogbeat’s functionality. Pete got to see the beta of our integration of Blogbeat into FeedBurner; if you’re interested, shoot me a note and I’ll put you on the list to get early access.
Dow Jones, our latest publisher
As I hinted last week, we’d have another couple big announcements coming shortly. The first of those is that “Dow Jones is now using FeedBurner”:http://www.primezone.com/newsroom/news.html?d=109887 to manage all of their feeds. Not only is it a terrific validation of what we’ve been up to, it’s exciting to be a part of such a forward thinking [...]
Lenovo Rides the Cluetrain
In the “Cluetrain Manifesto”:http://www.cluetrain.com/, “David”:http://www.hyperorg.com/blogger/ and “Chris”:http://www.rageboy.com/ and “Doc”:http://doc.weblogs.com/ wrote that “markets are conversations”. Much has been made of the importance of listening to your customers, and engaging them rather than talking at them. Remarkably, even when the perils of ignoring customer feedback have been made abundantly clear, companies that go the distance in this [...]
Lots going on
Been a week since I posted here, which is partly explained by the Thanksgiving holiday, but is mostly a reflection of just how busy we are at FeedBurner HQ. If you want to follow what I’m reading (but not writing about during this craziness), just subscribe to my “link feed”:http://feeds.feedburner.com/tins/shared.
In the meantime, here’s a quick [...]
PubCon in Vegas
Anyone reading this going to be in Vegas tonight through Wednesday? I’m speaking at “PubCon tomorrow”:http://www.pubcon.com/sessions.cgi?action=view&record=61 with Owen Byrne from Digg, Chris Tolles from Topix, and Niall Kennedy (humorously listed on the PubCon page as “Founder, Niall Kennedy” — I’ve heard of people reinventing themselves, but founding yourself? That’s cool.) tomorrow afternoon. If you’re going [...]
Startups and “normal” lives
Scott Converse, CEO at ClickCaster, wrote a “thought-provoking piece”:http://scottsphotolife.blogspot.com/2006/10/early-stage-startups-normal-lives.html the other day about being involved in a start-up as a 40-something.
Chicago Innovation Awards
Leaving the office in a few minutes to head on over to the “Chicago Innovation Awards”:http://www.chicagoinnovationawards.com/ ceremony. Yep, that’s right: FeedBurner’s an innovator. Bet you had no idea! Along with local heavyweights Sara Lee, Motorola, and fellow Web 2.0 trendsetters “37Signals”:http://www.37signals.com/, we’re very proud to have been recognized as “one of ten companies innovating”:http://www.suntimes.com/business/106996,CST-FIN-cia23-lede.article in [...]
TechCocktail - a great party
Last night was the second “TechCocktail”:http://www.techcocktail.com/ event, and it was incredible. I had to miss the first because of a family commitment, but I’m really glad I got to make it last night. “Eric”:http://www.ventureweek.com/ and “Frank”:http://www.somewhatfrank.com/ really outdid themselves: over 300 in attendance when all was said and done. The founder of Vonage was there, [...]
PME Wrap-up: Back to the Future
I spent the weekend in -lovely- -beautiful- sunny (yeah, at least it was sunny) Ontario, CA for the “Podcast and Portable Media Expo”:http://www.portablemediaexpo.com/. In its second year, it brought together over 2,000 attendees who ran the gamut from new podcaster up to some of the most widely-known podcasters around (yes, I met “the ninja”:http://www.askaninja.com/ and [...]
TechCrunch’s 100k readers
Traci wrote up a “fantastic case study”:http://blogs.feedburner.com/feedburner/archives/2006/09/a_peek_inside_techcrunchs_100k.php over on the FeedBurner blog about Mike Arrington’s remarkable growth over the last 12 months. It’s not only a good explanation of the kind of information we gather for publishers who use FeedBurner, it also goes into some good detail about how we gather the info we report.
Regardless [...]
