2006 October

Archive for October, 2006

Instant updates for FeedBurner users

Tuesday, October 31st, 2006

If you’re one of the thousands who use FeedBurner for your feed (268,677 at last count) then you’ll want to make sure your readers have instant access to your latest writing. Feed Crier is now an option for FeedBurner’s Pingshot service. Just log into your FeedBurner account and open up the Publicize tab. Find the nifty […]

Maintenance tonight

Thursday, October 26th, 2006

Feed Crier will be offline for a couple of hours tonight while the bot and web site are migrated to new servers. There will be minimal loss of items, however. We’ll store most items as they come in and deliver them when the bot comes back online.

Need some help? All you gotta do is ask

Thursday, October 19th, 2006

Want some help with Feed Crier? Just ask! Via AIM, you can talk with us at the screenname ‘feedcrierhelp’ or you can use the nifty Meebo widget located on the help pages. Either way, if we’re around, you’ll get help in a jiffy.

Unlimited feeds for Free accounts

Wednesday, October 18th, 2006

If you’re using Feed Crier Free and you’d like to add more than three feeds to your subscription, now you can. For a limited time, there’s no limit to the number of feeds you can add to Feed Crier. So load up those feeds!

Subscription Widget featured at TypePad

Tuesday, October 17th, 2006

The Feed Crier subscription form widget is now the featured widget in the TypePad widget gallery. Have a TypePad blog? Find out what the folks at Six Apart already know — adding IM subscriptions to your site is quick and easy with Feed Crier.

Track hot stories through Tailrank with Feed Crier

Monday, October 16th, 2006

News tracker Tailrank watches blogs and reports on the top stories of the day. The hotter the story, the faster it gets promoted to the front page. Today Tailrank released a slew of new features, with better story selection technology, a new design, and the ability to track a developing story by IM, powered by […]

And now a TypePad Widget

Friday, October 13th, 2006

TypePad users can easily install the Feed Crier Subscription Form using the new (and cleverly named) TypePad Feed Crier Subscription Form Widget. TypePad makes installing a Feed Crier Subscription form as easy as clicking a button. Well, maybe two buttons. And perhaps a third if you’re not already logged into TypePad. But it’s dang easy, we […]

Subscription Form Widget

Friday, October 13th, 2006

Now you can add a Feed Crier subscription form to your site with a simple copy and paste. No changing form fields. No need to customize anything. All you need to do is add the Feed Crier Subscription Form Widget to your site. It’s easy. Just copy and paste the following code into your web page […]

Customize your bookmarklet

Wednesday, October 11th, 2006

Want to easily add any site you come across into Feed Crier? You need the bookmarklet. Want to make it even easier? You can quickly add your screen name to the bookmarklet. When you use the bookmarklet with your screen name already added, a single click adds the feed and you’re whisked straight back to the […]

Most Popular

Tuesday, October 10th, 2006

Feed Crier is about 6 weeks old and already some clear winners have emerged. These are the most popular feeds among Feed Crier users. Want to follow the crowd? Just click the subscribe link and start watching the top feeds yourself. GigaOM (subscribe) Adam Kalsey (subscribe) TechCrunch (subscribe) Crying Out Loud (subscribe) CNN Top Stories […]

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