If you’ve been interested in how well Feedburner handles serving feeds, you may be interested in Aaron Brazell’s review.
His perspective in this review, is from the point of view of a blog network – b5media – which pumps several dozen feeds through the service. Because of the number and variety of feeds, the needs are unique, there are some items on his “wish list” that just don’t apply to individual bloggers.
Goods stuff Aaron!
Everywhere I’ve turned the last week or so, some new widget deal has been announced. While there are some really cool widgets and obviously some really great uses for them, does everyone want to load down their sites with these things? How much performance is sucked out of a site when building in all these widgets?
I think they’re cool, but am starting to wonder if they really bring any true value – for that matter, what value does the plug-ins I’ve added here bring?
Via: Techcrunch – Hot New Video, Calendar and Map Widgets
I’ve blogged before about Avvenu, the on line storage provider. Well, if you’re a current customer, you should be getting an email from them about an upgraded service offering available to you. It is a pay-for service but upgrades your account to 5GB.
Avvenu is unique in that they allow you to access your home computer hard drive in addition to online storage. I’ve been using them for some time and enjoy the ability to get to files on my home computer.
However, I use another service for my on line storage. Currently I’m actually using AOL’s XDrive for my data. Personally, I’m not fond of paying large sums each month for a service – it has to be a really good service, or something that I can’t live without. I can live without access to my home computer, but not to my on line files.
If I can access my files on the ‘net for free, why would I pay $20 or $30 per month for the privilege? If I have to pay, Amazon’s S3 service is looking more and more appealing to me.
I’ll take a closer look at this new Avvenu service later, but at first blush it doesn’t appeal to me.
Log into your Avvenu account for more details.
This is very interesting, it will make Java even more popular than it already is. My question though, is how will this affect compatibility and inter-operability? My experience with several Java-based tools at work indicate that Sun had issues keeping new versions of the JRE compatible with previous ones – or at least developers were using features of older JREs that didn’t work when you installed the newer ones.
via: Neowin.net – Sun opens Java
While I’ve unsubscribed from Dave’s Scripting News feed for the time being, I also have to give him kudos for developing and describing the River of News view. Over the past 2+ years that I’ve been using RSS for news consumption, I’ve tried about 10 or so different readers, out of which I ended up with Pluck for at least a year and a half.
This summer, however, I started playing around at other readers again and ran across a post somewhere espousing the benefits of Google Reader. So I tried it, and liked it – a lot. I’d tried several River of News views before, but GReader seems to hit the sweet spot for me. Reading and marking posts in GReader’s “All Items” view (by newest) is the most efficient way for me to read feeds now – I can’t even go back to feed-by-feed reading any longer.
Also, after reading Scoble’s use of GReader’s sharing feature, I also discovered my own personalized Link Blog. Neat how that works – if anyone is interested in what I’m reading, they can simply view my link blog. Its the actual posts I read from my list of feeds.
Via: Scobleizer – Dave Winer was right about river reading
Technorati tags: River of News 😢
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Out riding this rainy, wet spring. Got 1,000 miles on the clock with more to come this season. #IMRG #IndianMotorcycle
Watching early seasons of #GoldRush. Fun seeing @GoldrushRick in season 3! Hope his new season is off to a good start!
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