For Commercial Publishers

Joel Spolsky has some great tips on providing customer service. I’d like to add one more. Customer service is the job of everyone in the company. That includes the CEO, the sales guys, and the developers. Everyone should have some contact with the customer, because that’s how you learn. Some of Feed Crier’s best features have come […]

Simon Willison argues in favor of clear URLs and ensuring that each piece of content on your server has only one URL. Even if the content at two different URLs is identical, machines see them as two separate resources and will treat them as such. This means that caches frequently store two copies of the […]

Forget all that standing in line and camping overnight to get yourself a Wii. Outtastock has a Wii Finder that scours online merchants looking for this rare and elusive creature. They’ve got a feed that will even let you get availability updates in your favorite feed reader. You check your feed reader and discover that a […]

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 users are engaged readers. They are excited enough about your content to want instant notifications when you post more. What better audience is that? You can grow your readership and attract more of this sort of hyper-interested reader by giving your site visitors an easy way to subscribe to IM alerts from your blog. […]