Archive for June, 2008

Toluu Refines UI; Adds Features

June 30th

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.

Are You Really Using FriendFeed, or are You a Poser?

June 27th

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.

Instant Social Media – Just Add People

June 26th

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.

Why I Flip-Flopped on Yahoo! Buzz

June 25th

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 Feeds the NewsGator

June 24th

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

RSSmeme Learns to Speak Social Bookmarking

June 23rd

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!

Last.fm Has an Annoying Fault

June 22nd

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

Trackback This

June 18th

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 [...]

Quick News from Around the Net

June 17th

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

Maybe I Will Stick With My Day Job

June 16th

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.

My ISP is a DNS Sellout!

June 13th

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.

RSSmeme Leverages the FriendFeed API

June 13th

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 [...]

Toluu Just Got Better: New Feed Page Views and More!

June 11th

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!

Feed Uptick - RSS Reset

June 10th

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.

Strike While the Iron is Hot

June 10th

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.

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