I just got an email from long time reader Ben who told me that my feed would not update automatically anymore. After checking the feed it turned out that he was right. The Feedburner feed stopped on February 10 and did not update afterwards while the normal feed displays the latest articles just fine. I [...]

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I run another popular site together with Everton of Connected Internet. The site I’m talking about is Windows 7 News, a highly popular and well ranked, website about the next Microsoft operating system Windows 7. A reader contacted us earlier today mentioning a problem that he was encountering when trying to view the feed of [...]

Categories: Internet Explorer, The Web

Okay I spend most of the weekend trying to find out why my RSS news feed was not displaying for many of my readers and why I would get all kinds of errors like 404 not found in the beginning and then a dubious homepage when opening the RSS News Feed url in the browser. [...]

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Google changed my RSS News Feed today from Feedburner to a Google domain on my request. I did that mainly because it is then possible to add Adsense ads to the feed which I’m thinking of trying out. Since it is a transfer of the domain it could mean that some of you are experiencing [...]

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I was astonished to see a dip in the amount of feed readers in the last days and decided to investigate the matter. It has happened in the past that Feedburner did have some problems to accumulate the stats correctly or that another party, like Google, did not report the amount of subscribers correctly. This [...]

Categories: Online Services

RSS Feeds are very handy if you visit lots of websites regularly because they tell you exactly when a website was updated. It’s relatively unknown to the general Internet crowd though, mostly used by blog owners and tech savvy users which is a real shame in my opinion. Feeds will never be something for the [...]

Categories: Online Services

Wow what a milestone. My blog finally reached 6000+ RSS readers for the first time which is an awesome milestone for me and verification of the progress of this blog in the last two years. I never thought that I would reach the 6000 users this quickly and I’m thankful for each and every user who is reading my articles in his RSS reader.

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Feedburner displayed a redirection link to my article instead of the direct link to the article on my blog. In case you are wondering: Feedburner is a service that blog owners can use to distribute their feed, get statistics and ensure maximum compatibility with most feedreaders out there.

Categories: The Web