Features

A new feature is being tested in Feed Crier. Tell Feed Crier “off” and it will pause your alerts until you tell it “on.” Any alerts you received while it was paused will be delivered when you turn it back on. Nice and simple. The commands don’t show up in the help file yet, so telling […]

We just added a feed of the top feeds. Quick, everyone go subscribe to the feed at once so that the Feed Crier Top Feeds feed will be on the Top Feeds list and appear in the Top Feeds Feed. It’s also available in OPML, if you’re into that sort of thing.

Feed Crier now supports real-time alerting to MSN Messenger addresses. Whether you use the MSN client or Windows Live Messenger, whether your signin ID is yourname@hotmail.com or yourmail@yourdomain.com, Feed Crier can now deliver alerts to your desktop. Feel free to try out MSN support by using the signup form or by sending the word “help” in […]

Feed Crier can now deliver alerts to any Jabber server, including Google Talk and many corporate instant messaging platforms. Jabber support has been in beta for several weeks. Thanks so much to the valuable feedback that our beta testers have given over this time period. The new support was soft launched on Monday, but we’ve withheld making […]

Lots of people are using Feed Crier to keep an eye on fast-changing news sites like Digg and Tailrank. But Feed Crier’s update mechanism treated all feeds equally. This meant that a subscriber to Digg might not be the first to hear about the latest Apple Phone rumor. His friends would laugh at him for […]

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 […]

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 […]

Feed Crier has a number of new features, if you’re into those sorts of things. Most of the features quietly fade into the background. Those are often the best kind of features because you don’t really need to know about them in order to take advantage of them. But for those keeping score, here you […]