2007 March

With the Twitterbot down, are you missing your instant message stream of your friends looking for their socks? You know, you can subscribe to your friend’s timelines with RSS, and that means you can bypass the twitterbot and use Feed Crier. Subscribe to http://twitterusername:twitterpassword@twitter.com/statuses/friends_timeline.rss with Feed Crier and renew your IM client’s love afair with Twitter. PS. […]

update Mar 16 5:30pm The bot has been back up for an hour and is looking stable. It appears that at least some of the MSN Messenger login servers are offline. This means that Feed Crier’s bot can’t log in, and from what I can tell, most other people can’t log in either. We’re monitoring […]

update Mar16 9am The AIM bot is back online. The AIM bot isn’t working right now. Jabber and MSN are fine, and we’re working on troubleshooting the problem. To use either the MSN bot or the Jabber bot, add feedcrier@feedcrier.com to your buddy list.

TechCrunch’s Mike Arrington laments the traffic spikes that a writeup in TechCrunch often causes. As TechCrunch traffic continues to grow, a problem is popping up more and more often - the traffic we send to a site when we write about it on its launch day can (and often does) take it down. It’s […]

Feed Crier has had one long outstanding bug that’s driven me nuts. If a feed had multiple new items, only the newest one would be sent to you. If Bob’s Puppy Auctions posted 5 new puppies at once, you’d only see the newest one. If your best friend posted 10 new links to their Del.icio.us […]

Brad Feld tells how he reads feeds… I subscribe to 734 feeds. Until a few weeks ago (when I started using NewsGator Desktop), I fired up FeedDemon once a day, spent 30 minutes going through all my unread items, forwarding and clipping as appropriate, and then not looking at my feeds again until […]