Today Google sent me a reminder email that they will be eliminating email subscriptions from Feedburner. Once upon a time I used Feedburner to send email newsletters from spudart.org. This was before Google owned Feedburner. Feedburner started in 2004. Google bought them in 2007. I must have started using Feedburner sometime between those years. Google …
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Sometimes you come across a blog that is just incredible. After reading the latest ten to twenty posts, you want to read more. Instead you subscribe to the blog, figuring you’ll just read the new posts as they come in. An entire untapped archive of posts are waiting to be read. It’s a shame that these older posts won’t get …
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Headlines are a great way to surf the news. All the RSS readers allow you to browse articles by headlines and the first couple sentences. But sometimes I just want to browse articles by images. There are no RSS readers that give you an alternate view of seeing just the images. Specifically, it would be …
What is your dream app? I’d like an app that combines the functionality of an RSS reader with a PDF editor. This extremely powerful RSS reader would present every article as a PDF that you can annotate and highlight. Your notes on each PDF would be easily exported to share via social media and on …
Do you use a ton of services at work? As an online marketer I use Apple, Bitly, Google Chrome, Hootsuite, Mailchimp, Twitter, Return Path, Ginger Labs (maker of Notability), and WooThemes. At home I use Feedly, Evernote, Flipboard, Last.fm, Netflix, Dropbox, Toodledo, Adium, Comixology, Delicious, Foursquare, Spotify, and Zite. #takeadeepbreath That’s a lot of services! I like to keep up to date …
Websites can be so bloated in comparison to laser focus of apps. “Websites will become the AM radio of the Internet.” claims George Colony, Chief Executive Officer of Forrester Research. Jay Baer (NY Times bestseller) notes: Why would I (or you) wade through an entire website that must try to serve the disparate information needs …
When there is a trending topic, do you want to gather together all your friend’s thoughts? We’ve got facebook, twitter, and blogs. But man, everything is scattered all over the place. Wouldn’t it be nice to see everyone’s thoughts in one place? With feedly you can get all your trusted source’s opinions on a specific topic, …
Why would Google kill Google Reader? There are a few false excuses floating around. Some people are saying Google is focusing on their core efforts. Others are claiming that RSS is a dying technology. Both of those reasons would be extremely false. The “core efforts excuse” is not a reason. Google states their purpose on …
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Google is killing off the popular and much-used service Google Reader. I am very disappointed. Google Reader is the staple of my internet. It’s my #1 site both on desktop and on mobile. By far my #1 most visited site. BY FAR. Google Reader is my #1 site I visit throughout the day at work on …
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Google allows a maximum of 2,000 subscriptions in Google Reader. I had about 2,248 subscriptions, because a couple weeks ago I dumped in about 550 RSS feeds of all the people I’m following on twitter. Sure enough in the past couple weeks I’ve noticed that the view counts were off in the folders. Today I …