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Last week, Toluu rolled out some big features. Today, we are seeing a couple of more subtle but no less welcome improvements to our favorite feed subscription-matching service.

Ok, for today’s rant, I’m going to pick on those folks that signed up for FriendFeed, added a few services, and then never logged back in. More specifically, I am going to pick on Steve Gillmor.

You may ask yourself, this sounds like a grind, what’s the point? Why should I keep doing this on one service after another? And the answer is: There is no good reason to do it.

Do you have a Yahoo! login? I bet you do. Everyone has one. And if you do, you have everything you need in order to participate in Yahoo! Buzz. I used to be really down on the service, with its exclusivity and the huge hype that led up to its unveiling. But recently, I’ve changed my mind.

ReadBurner unveils support for sharing articles with the NewsGator family of products, and super-fancy site enhancements!

Utilizing the friendfeed API and his brand of Django programming wizardry, Benjamin Golub has taught his shared-story app to leverage even more services to get a better buzz count on current articles. Essentially, RSSmeme will now look at all the social bookmarking services that friendfeed supports and allow those shares to contribute to an article’s popularity!

I have fun with the last.fm radio station widget.

Good Morning scribkin readership!
If you operate a blog, and that blog supports sending a trackback, I have a simple request for you.  I have adjusted the trackback URL on this article to point to (what I think) the Disqus service will use.
Next time you post, please include a link to this article (no need to [...]

News on Swurl, Feedly, Disqus trackbacks, Louis Gray and Firefox 3

I have to admit that this past week, with its focus on the seedy underbelly of the shiny blog beast, has rather tempered my enthusiasm to dive into the blogging business full-time.

This has been brought up in the past, but recently I’ve noticed that my Internet Service Provider, Road Runner from Time Warner Cable, has decided that when I typo on the location bar, it’s perfectly acceptable to send me to a not-so-helpful search result page.

I just caught a post by Benjamin Golub, the developer of RSSmeme, in which he reveals some upcoming changes to his popular service:
RSSmeme is about to be faster than ever at finding the hot news of the day. Everyone knows that FriendFeed is fast; and I’m not talking about the speed at which the site [...]

My use of Toluu has grown these past few weeks to the point where it has become a permanent addition to the list of useful sites I hit almost every day. So imagine how pleased I was to hear that Toluu was going to add some great new features today!

I was re-reading yesterday’s post about RSS Reset and, since I included the live FeedBurner counters in my post, I noticed that many of them seemed slightly higher. I decided to drop them in to FeedCompare and see the trending.

It’s common knowledge in the blogging industry that updating more frequently will net you more viewers and feed subscribers than writing fewer, perhaps higher-quality posts. Today, I wanted to address this topic and see if it is actually true.