Posts Tagged With: readers
· July 21, 2008 at 5:11 am · Web Development, Writing Advice
When getting started building a brand Online, a lot of people ask what should they do first? Well after you get your content flowing, you need a way for people to follow that content. That is where RSS and all the various feed readers out there come into play.
Everybody has their own way of doing things though, so you need to make sure you meet everybody’s needs. Thanks to services like FeedBurner, this is pretty easy. From inside their web site you can generate tons of those subscription links, as well as your standard big orange button and even e-mail newsletter management. It is by far the best option out there.
As a rule of thumb, you want to give people the ability to follow you via:
- Your Domain (visiting your web site)
- Via RSS (using the feed reader of their choosing)
- and a newsletter (which you can easily setup with an RSS feed with FeedBurner)
Also it never hurts to let people know your RSS feed over and over again. Such as how I am right now begging you informing you to subscribe to this feed if you want more informative posts just like the one you just read:
http://feeds.feedburner.com/mitchelaneous
· July 11, 2007 at 1:48 pm · Hot Web Topics, Popular Posts, Software Help
There is more than one way to subscribe to web pages and get the latest updates and news. Firefox itself can even become an RSS feed reader if you install the right extension. Now which extension is right for you?
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· November 23, 2006 at 7:39 am · Personal
It is the one big pain in the butt that we all complain about around the holiday season. It seems like the Christmas stuff comes out in the stores just a little too early for everybody.
Now I am no scrooge, but I think in a few more years Thanksgiving will probably be nothing more than a start of the Christmas holiday season. Is there a war on Christmas? Heck no! There is a war on Thanksgiving. Every year it seems to die down in importance.
Ok, I feel better now that I got that out of my system. 
Personally, due to the wacky working schedules of my family - we will not be doing our Thanksgiving here till Saturday, so I have a little extra time to be thankful for a few other things right now.
As always I am thankful for still being at Lockergnome, it is a place that never seems to get dull because there is always something new to read or something new being done behind the scenes. I am also thankful that Lunarpages brought me on to help the Web hosting public, one confused newbie at a time.
I am thankful I have had more than 20,000 download of my eBook Firefox Facts. Also, I am thankful that you have allowed me onto your mp3 players for almost two years now via the Web Hosting Show.
Last but not least, I am thankful for all my readers (even the ones here) that follow my ramblings at all the different places that I share my views on the world.
· September 19, 2006 at 9:52 am · Online Tools
Since the new Rojo is extremely buggy, I have had to move feed readers yet again. This time around I think I have found a keeper. NewsAlloy.com is one of the quickest and cleanest Web-based feed readers I have seen in a while.
I had no problem importing my OPML list into News Alloy, and once I did I was ready to go. You see, I like to see a long list of entries in my feed reader that I can scan down. Once I have reached the bottom, I want to be able to get rid of them for good. It is such a simple idea, I don’t know why more Online feed readers don’t provide this simple view aspect.
Another nice thing I liked about this service is it didn’t choke on my number of RSS feeds that I subscribe to.
So if you are looking for a quick and reliable way of going through your feeds, give News Alloy a shot.
· September 5, 2006 at 5:20 am · Web Hosting
Hosting Hoopla has a new color theme! I released “Black Hoopla” yesterday afternoon.
Click on a thumbnail to enlarge the image!
For those of you who might be (pardon the pun) in the dark, HostingHoopla.com is the Web’s first web hosting news and link reader. I am pulling Web hosting information and providing RSS feeds for some of the top Web hosting resouces both inside and outside of the Web hosting industry.
Related - See Hosting Hoopla on the PlayStation Portable Browser!
· September 4, 2006 at 9:12 am · Online Tools
I have decided to move away from an application feed reader and back to an Online feed reader. Now there are plenty to choose from, but most of them are ugly and have too many bells and whistles. I tried using Bloglines - but five minutes later I got lost, and just closed Firefox in confusion. That is when I decided to give Rojo a shot.
Rojo does exactly what I want it to do. It let me import my OPML file from FeedDemon. It let me view 100 entries at a time. It doesn’t show me stuff I have already looked at.
When I look out there at reviews, Rojo doesn’t seem that popular. I really don’t have a clue why this is so, because I have loved it thus far. So if you haven’t yet found your perfect feed reader, I would suggest giving Rojo a shot.
