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February 26, 2007
FeedBurner Japan Re-Launched
Whew! After quite a few long days and nights by both the Chicago and Tokyo teams, the relaunch of FeedBurner.jp is finally complete and up and running. Even though we launched the Japanese version of the site some time ago, we have been running on separate codebases for the last year, which really hasn't been any fun for anyone.
From a software development perspetive, this meant whenever we added a feature to FeedBurner.com, we had to manually copy over and test the code on FeedBurner.jp - which made it difficult if not impossible to keep the two sites n sync. This of course was one of those decisions made when we first launched to acheive the quickest time to market, knowing full well it come to bite us in the ass later.
Knowing that, we embarqued on a project quite some time ago to fully internationalize the FeedBurner website so it would become much easier to support the features in multiple languages on a going forward basis. Now when we add features, they can become available in any language we have a translation for almost immediately.
This new unified, internationalized codebase is the basis for FeedBurner.jp - and we will be making other languages available on FeedBurner.com really soon!
For now, you can enjoy all the services of FeedBurner in Japan whether you are a Blogger, a Podcaster, a Commercial Publisher, or an Advertiser.
So Kanpai! to Setsu and his entire team for working hard all weekend on this conversion. I certainly consider it a success!
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February 13, 2007
Google Mobile Proxy adds RSS/Atom Feed Discovery
If you use Google on a mobile phone browser, you may or may have not noticed that when you click on results, they send the result pages through a transcoding proxy, that is a server that tries to take regular web pages and format them for your mobile phone. Google's proxy has been around a long time, and continues to evolve.
Their latest innovation is great: if you browse to a page with an RSS or Atom feed, you get the option to immediately add that feed to Google Reader for mobile.
Pretend you search for this blog, for instance. You might see:
I could have felt lucky, but instead I just pick the first one, and there it is...this blog formatted for mobile, and at the top are my feeds.
If you click on one of those feeds, you go straigh to Google Reader.
Very cool.
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February 12, 2007
Apparently, we're in the top 100
FeedBurner Ego Wall
Originally uploaded by rklau.
of lots of things!
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February 11, 2007
Custom Search Engine Stats
If you've only read this blog via the feed, you may not have noticed that I now include a custom search box on the site which bascially allows someone to search my network of blogs. This is a pretty cool feature provided by Google Co-op. It's also cool that they've started providing stats on the searches.
Furthermore, if you've linked this search to an AdSense channel, you can start to get some stats on search ads that are served up alongside this search.
Pretty cool stuff. And a lot of possibilities!
Link to Google Co-op - Custom Search Engine
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February 09, 2007
FeedBurner StandardStats Review
Another great FeedBurner Standard Stats Review, this one by Thomas McMahon. He also answers a question we get asked a lot - "Can I run both FeedBurner Standard Stats and Google Analytics?" The answer is unequivocally "Yes!" - and it's good to see the data reported by both is close - validating the accuracy of both services.
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VZAccess Manager Software Download
verizon's list of when they will support Vista on their products
Link to VZAccess Manager Software Download
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February 08, 2007
FeedBurner Media Kit online
Congrats to our marketing and design teams who have done an absolutely bang-up job getting our FeedBurner Media Kit online.
I especially like the Channel Demographics and the Specs and Samples sections which we get asked about a lot.
Link to FeedBurner - FeedBurner Ads for Blogs and Feeds
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February 07, 2007
Future of Online Advertising Conference
Kudos again to Carson Systems, for really putting together an all-star speaking lineup for the FOOA conference later this year. Please put it on your list!
Here's the details:
The Future of Online Advertising
June 7/8 - NYC
http://www.futureofonlineadvertising.com
"A two day conference where the biggest names in online advertising show you how to increase ad revenue from your site, how to use your ad budget effectively and where the online advertising industry is headed."
Confirmed Speakers:
- Jeremy Allaire (Brightcove)
- Carla Hendra (Ogilvy)
- Greg Stuart (IAB)
- Matt Freeman (Tribal DDB)
- Steve Rubel (Edelman)
- Chas Edwards (Federated Media)
- Andrew Goodman (Page Zero)
- Steve Olechowski (FeedBurner)
- Michael Walrath (Right Media)
- Alyson Racer (New York Times)
Link to Future of Online Advertising
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February 02, 2007
18 hours to upgrade to Vista
Last night after dinner I settled down with CSI, Scrubs, and the Office on my Comcast HD DVRs with the intention of upgrading my Fujitsu 7120D to Vista in the background. I had oy mac G4 laptop as a secondary to answer email, and search for answers to upgrade problems, etc.
Luckily, I had the foresight to go to the Fujitsu site and grab all the Vista drivers and put them in a folder on my desktop (my computer desktop is a lot like my real desk - see above) so I could easily access them during the upgrade.
Like every large software migration project, nothing went as planned!
First, my Mac G4 crashed. I heard the hard drive clicking, and then death. Now it starts up and can't find a drive to boot from. Great. Another thing to deal with later.
Second, upgrading an existing system to Vista takes a long, long time. I had previously installed a beta clean on an old laptop, and that wasn't too bad. But when it has to go through and check every program and driver already installed for compatibilty, you can probably triple the time.
Of course, none of my drivers came with Vista, so this morning after the install finished (yes, it was running all night) i had to go through the arduous task of de-install and reboot about 10 times.
Finally, about 18 hours later, I had a running copy of Vista! I still have 2 bum drivers I can't track down and annoying message about a ZoneLabs driver for which i cannot seem to locate the source program, but so far, everything seems to work from the software side of things, which is pretty surprising, actually.
Well, there's a few things like it renames all your personal folders from names like "My Music" to "Music" - so every program that had these as a preference can no longer find my files, but that's just a minor annoyance.
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