Status | It’s Update Season!
I already have an update planned for the Facebook (Un)marketing release that came out on Thursday (you still have about an hour to act before I start cleaning up the sales page and raising the price to retail.) From earlier tonight to the next 36 hours or so, if you’ve been a client of mine [...]
Google Tuesdays | FeedBurner Premium is Free Forever
Those of you who naysayed Google’s aquisition of FeedBurner as evil-doings may not be biting your tongues, but those of us who kept the faith are rejoicing – FeedBurner’s awesome premium services are now free of charge. You still have to go activate them to use them, but they are totally free. I’ll have a [...]
Mulligatawny Monday – Video of Interview with FeedBurner CEO Dick Costolo
I’m a FeedBurner junkie, I don’t know how else to put it. I found this video of Dick Costolo having a conversation right before the acquisition. Really good explanation of what RSS is and what FeedBurner does. Best question “How does your background in improvisation inform your career as an entrepreneur?” PDF
Search Engine Wednesday | Google and FeedBurner Rumor Confirmed True?
Feedburner getting bought? This TechCrunch post about FeedBurner says yes. Rumors about Google acquiring RSS management company Feedburner from last week, started by ex-TechCrunch UK editor Sam Sethi, are accurate and are now confirmed according to a source close to the deal. PDF
Friday Marketing/Tools
LeapTag has released the beta of its self-named RSS reader and rating tool. LeapTag is a browser plug-in that lets you assign categories to websites and vote thumbs up or down on pieces of content. The software is free and ad supported. RSS readers such as LeapTag are important to marketers because they indicate that [...]
Should I Go Back to Full Text Feeds at This Point?
When this site was on the Blogger platform and had a members section, I had a bunch of feeds, some were full text, some were partial, some had both. At the time, partial feeds meant less scraping and more more page views. Now, I wonder if page views even matter when the bottom line is [...]
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