Category: RSS

  • WordPress/FeedBurner lose my subscribers

    —

    by

    Tom Raftery
    in , , ,

    Really odd but since I upgraded to WordPress 2.3 the number of subscribers to my blog has roughly halved. Today it is reading 632. It hasn’t been below 1,000 in at least 6 months never mind down at the 600 mark. I realise that this is likely due to my moving to the newer FeedBurner…

  • WordPress 2.3 upgrade breaks RSS feed

    —

    by

    Tom Raftery
    in , ,

    Sean McNamara alerted me via the comments on this blog that my RSS feed was broken (thanks a million Sean). I sorted that out this morning so it should be good again and Google Reader is certainly having no problem seeing my posts now. So what happened? To be honest, I’m not entirely sure (!)…

  • Congrats Jeff

    —

    by

    Tom Raftery
    in ,

    I was delighted to see Jeff Nolan has started to work for NewsGator. Jeff, who has previously worked for Teqlo and SAP was one of the best speakers we had at the it@cork annual conference last year. NewsGator, the company he is joining, are the leading RSS client company, powering FeedDemon and NetNewsWire as well…

  • RSS in plain english

    —

    by

    Tom Raftery
    in

    This is a great video explaining the reason why RSS is so powerful in non-tech speak!

  • Google updates Mobile Google Reader – gPhone imminent?

    —

    by

    Tom Raftery
    in , ,

    Google has done a significant upgrade of the mobile version of Google Reader, as well as the desktop version. I haven’t seen this written up anywhere yet (apologies if you wrote it up and I missed your post). Look at the bottom of the screenshot above. There are new links for Tags, Subscriptions, Settings, Sign…

  • Google Reader updates

    —

    by

    Tom Raftery
    in , ,

    Overnight Google added search functionality to Google Reader. What is amazing is that it took so long for an ostensibly search-related company to add this to the Reader. Having said that, the search functionality rolled out is extensive allowing searching of individual feeds, all feeds, or by folder lavel. If you don’t see this functionality…

  • Site owner blocks Firefox users!

    —

    by

    Tom Raftery
    in , ,

    I saw this story on Techmeme this morning and I simply couldn’t believe it – but it is true! A guy called Danny Carlton has decided to block ALL Firefox users from his site because: The Mozilla Foundation and its Commercial arm, the Mozilla Corporation, has allowed and endorsed Ad Block Plus, a plug-in that…

  • Problems with Google Reader

    —

    by

    Tom Raftery
    in

    One of the advantages of Google Reader is that you can view it on multiple devices and it is always in sync. At least that’s the theory anyway! However, it has been annoying me that whenever I view my feeds on my phone (Nokia E65) the list of unread posts looks very different. I took…