July 08, 2004
Introducing the Headline Animator
We're happy to introduce our latest publisher service: the Headline Animator. When you burn your RSS or Atom feed with FeedBurner, you can take advantage of this cool, different way of looking at your feed. Here, for example, is what the "Burn This!" Headline Animator looks like:
Just by pasting some HTML code into, say, your email signature file or bulletin board profile, you'll get a nice little badge that always shows your latest five blog postings. No Javascript or Flash required -- we generate an animated GIF on-the-fly from your feed.
I'm sure you can come up many creative uses for this new service. Just follow these instructions to customize your Headline Animator and let us know how you're using it!
Comments
This idea is golden. Love it.
Two issues:
1. I added this to my HTML signature in Yahoo Mail. The button does not show up in recipients' email (sent to AOL, Yahoo! and Gmail) after I included the signature with button.
2. All FeedBurner setting strangly disapeared after I created this button. I had to re-do the entire list of Burn options, including Content Items, Amazon ID etc.
Yes, yes - Pre-Alpha, I know. That's my bug report for now.
Doh! Thank you for letting us know that your settings were reset when you selected the Headline Animator. That bug is fixed now. I'm afraid early adopters (those that tried the Headline Animator before 8:30 PM CDT) will have to re-specify the filter settings on your feed. We apologize for the inconvenience.
You wrote:
"..will have to re-specify the filter settings on your feed."
You mean:
"... will have to re-specify the filter settings on THEIR feed." ???
Yep, that's what I meant ... sorry for the grammar bad.
Make sure you check out the posting "Attention Headline Animator Early Adopters" for more information on this.
The animator icon doesn't show up on my site. There's a hole where the icon should be.
The animator icon doesn't show up on my site. There's a hole where the icon should be.
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I like everything you guys do.
But....is there any way you can extend the number of words in the headline? Right now as I prepare my blog headline, other priorities are ahead of tailor-making to your headline animator, so often there is no meaning to a headline in the feed because of the few words permitted.
Great Job Done Guys. I have implemented this feature into my blog right away.
Thanks Google.
