A couple months ago, we talked about our transition from pre-Alpha to Beta. While we have taken some grief for the label pre-Alpha, we have always had a very specific set of criteria for FeedBurner's migration from alpha to beta to launch. In addition to a number of product capabilities now in place, we wanted to see a production configuration with loads of extra capacity, lots of redundancy throughout the network, etc. Basically, we wanted one of those neat infastructure topology diagrams that our networking jefe Joe Kottke (no relation) could look at and say "it is good". He's stopped squeezing that little rubber ball when he looks at the production monitoring tools, so we think we're in good shape.
The migration from Beta to launch largely entails a capacity planning activity, another iteration on portions of the site's UI, and a couple of product enhancements that we'll roll out over the next couple months.
Finally, the product performed beyond expectations prior to Beta. We hope that the even more robust production configuration and capacity will provide publishers and subscribers with even better performance and service during this brief Beta stint.
Posted by Dick at August 26, 2004 03:57 PM | TrackBack | Post A Comment | Email This PostIt looks great. My only request is that on the feed list screen. Instead defaulting to cancel when you press the wheel, can it be set to open the selected feed? It would make more sense (at least in my small part of the universe).
Thanks
Mike
I just tried out your service and I'm happy with it. Thanks ;)
Posted by: Elena at September 20, 2004 06:21 PMAny chance of supporting basic authentication of feeds? My company has several rss feeds, but are password protected. It would be great if there was a setting in the feed setup where user/password settings could entered. My two cents. Keep up the great work!
Posted by: Mike Morper at September 25, 2004 06:02 PMAfter updating the feeds I select View from the menu and I get:
Uncaught Exception: java.lang.IllegalStateException
Device: 7780
Network: Rogers
I'm having trouble getting the reader working. I've installed but get the following when I try to update:
net.rim.device.cldc.io.waphttpd.WAPIOException
I'm on a T-Mobile Blackberry 7100t.
Any suggestions?
Posted by: Randy Bradshaw at October 20, 2004 03:46 PMChecking out the Blackberry beta. One Q: does this use the Blackberry data net, or is it using ATT Wireless' WAP? Not sure if this is a legit Q or not.
Wondering, because I pay ATTWS $49/mo for unlimited Blackberry data access, but I suspect it doesn't cover their MMode access. This is what they put as "fine print" on their unlimited Blackberry data plan: "Unlimited usage applies to BlackBerry email, Internet browsing, and qualified applications that use the BlackBerry Mobile Data Service. Other, non-qualified data usage is charged at $0.0048 per KB."
So wondering if, when I use the RSS reader, I'm doing it at $0.0048 per KB.
Hi Frank,
I totally understand your question, but as of right now I am not sure of the answer.
If you puchased the device directly from AWS, and are not provisioned via a corporate MDS gateway, the data is going through AWS's WAP Gateway, like other Blackberry applications.
This beta version is not "qualified" nor distributed by AWS in any way at this point.
That said, I have never seen extra data charges on our test accounts.
We will try to find out the answer and post a reply here.
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