FoxyTunes rocks
Fred Wilson wrote last week about a browser plugin I’d never heard of, “FoxyTunes”:http://avc.blogs.com/a_vc/2007/04/foxytunes_plane.html. It inserts a browser control in the footer of your browser:
What’s perhaps most incredible about it is what happens when you click on the artist/track in the browser control. It takes you to a page devoted to that artist, with [...]
Blogrolls matter
I haven’t had a blogroll on my site in years. Turns out that’s a “mistake”:http://www.problogger.net/archives/2007/04/18/how-google-blogsearch-ranks-your-posts-in-their-own-words/. I’ll be working on remedying that in the next few days…
Recommended books
A feature I had on the site about a year ago was the “Now Reading plugin”:http://robm.me.uk/projects/plugins/wordpress/now-reading/ which gave me an easy way to use WordPress to manage the books I was interested in, a way to log my thoughts on the books as I read them, and a neat archive of the books I’d read. [...]
Full vs. Partial Feeds
I just wrote up “a post”:http://blogs.feedburner.com/feedburner/archives/2007/04/ricks_ruminations_full_feeds.php I’m pretty proud of over at “Burning Questions”:http://blogs.feedburner.com/feedburner/. It’s specifically about the full vs. partial feed debate, but from a different perspective than most discussions on the topic. Specifically, I looked at the likelihood of partial feeds generating clickthroughs (low), the ability to increase clickthroughs by adding FeedFlare, and, [...]
Headline Animator in Gmail
If you’ve been following the “ongoing saga”:http://blogs.feedburner.com/feedburner/archives/2007/03/headline_animator_overhaul_par_4.php that is Headline Animator (more sequels than Friday the 13th!), you’ll know that it’s been receiving a lot of attention over at FeedBurner world headquarters. For those that don’t know, Headline Animator turns your feed into an animated GIF. We’ve long recommended using Headline Animator as part of [...]
Shared items
The pace continues to accelerate here in FeedBurner-land, so I’ve been pretty slack in posting to the blog. I know, I know - you didn’t miss me! - but it still feels odd to be out of the habit of posting and then face the inevitable writer’s block when I sit down to post.
But there’s [...]
OK, OK. I give up. I’m “on Twitter”:http://twitter.com/rklau. When I first heard about Twitter, I thought it was just a way to render SMS as useful as e-mail (which is to say, not very). But as with many tools that are now an indispensable part of my online life (RSS, Flickr, Youtube, Gmail, Facebook, Google [...]
Salesforce spam: fixing web-to-lead
For more than 3 years, I’ve been a very happy Salesforce.com user. Unlike more bloated CRM applications that require training, lengthy implementation cycles and user revolt, Salesforce.com is in the sweet spot of sophistication and simplicity. For us at FeedBurner, it’s been a great way to scale our lead management and is taking a growing [...]
Converting from Outlook to Gmail
Last week, I gave up on my Treo and replaced it with a “Samsung D807″:http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000FYUYT8?ie=UTF8&tag=tins-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=B000FYUYT8. It’s not a smart phone, it doesn’t have a keyboard. But thanks to the phone, I switched from Outlook full-time to Gmail. And after just a couple days, I’m hooked.
OK, the details: the D807 is one of many phones that [...]
Converting from Movable Type to WordPress permalinks
Well, it’s almost a year late. When I “converted”:http://www.rklau.com/tins/archives/2006/04/13/switching-to-wordpress.php from Movable Type to WordPress, one of the things I put off doing was switch to WordPress permalinks for individual posts. I know, this sounds like a completely useless discussion - whether your posts are published at blog.com/2006/10/12/some_post.php or blog.com/2006/10/12/some-post.php couldn’t be more boring, right?
Wrong.
Turns out, [...]
