wolfb - feeds and RSS

We are selling zolow.com.

The reason is very simple: we have no time to take it where it deserves to be. Contact me, or read the official post :)

Labels: web

The new eyeOS 1.0 has just been launched. eyeOS is the best web desktop or webOS available today.

With more than 120,000 registered users in the public server, and a developers server at eyeOS.org, this group of Spanish kids (all younger than 23) has done what everybody else was dreaming about.

But you better create an account right now and test it yourself . It's free.
The developers team are:

• Pau Garcia-Milà


• Marc Cercós


• David Plaza


• Jose Carlos Norte


• Daniel Gil


• Alejandro Fiestas

I used to annoy them, but now is time for them to flight solo. :D

Labels: web

I like bloglines.

But they have so many problems that today I have decided to move my OPML file to Google Reader.

And although I don't like Google Reader (sorry), I cannot take any more:

• Reading hundred times the same posts from blogger blogs. Even mine. I am about to unsubscribe to my own blog !!
  

• Slow update of posts. Sometimes I see articles in Lifehacker or TechCrunch hours before they show up in bloglines.
  

• Useless options. I keep saying that I want the interface in English, but it changes from English to Spanish depending on the computer I use.
  

• Again: I have marked "read" again all my feeds from YouTube. The same 3 feeds, with the same videos, I have had to "read" them 20 times today !!! 20 !!!

There I go, Google. Again (damn !)

Wait ... did I say that the most troubled feeds are from YouTube and Blogger ??? Could it be that Google ..... ?? Nahhhhh, don't think evil .....

Labels: blogging, rss, software, web

Wolfb is back in Blogger. After a year or so in a drupal platform, I've decided to move back to Blogger.

The reasons are simple: I made the mistake of installing 9 blogs in the same Drupal script, which worked fine for a while, but proved unmanageable at the end. And when I decided to move to another server, it was impossible to transfer the database or make any sense out of it.

So I cleaned most of the posts and moved back to Blogger. This blog is not my main one (which is the Spanish language hombrelobo), but I will keep it to post a few ideas from time to time in English and to announce news from the eyeOS project.

Funny, this must be the only blog moving to Blogger ... seems like everybody else is moving from Blogger to Wordpress .....

Stay tuned ... :)

Labels: domain, seo, web

What is what holds the blogosphere together ?  Without any doubt, one of its basic pillars is the RSS and atom feeds. They link sites together, transfer the information rapidly, allow subscriptions and replication.

But, did you ever consider that most of these feeds are hosted in Feedburner ? Feedburner has a fantastic feed hosting service that gives the webmaster flexibility and statistics (among other things) for free. I use then and their service is excellent.

But what would happen if Feedburner goes down or doesnt' work (for any reason)  ?

These are the most important blogs according to Technorati:

1. Engadget http://www.engadget.com - 25,465 blogs link here - uses direct rss http://www.engadget.com/rss.xml
2. 老徐   徐静蕾   新浪BLOG - http://blog.sina.com.cn/m/xujinglei - 22,785 blogs link here - direct rss - http://blog.sina.com.cn/myblog/index_rss.php
3. Boing Boing: A Directory of Wonderful Things - http://www.boingboing.net - 20,518 blogs link here - feedburner - http://feeds.feedburner.com/boingboing/iBag
4. Gizmodo, The Gadget Guide - http://www.gizmodo.com - 13,811 blogs link here - direct rss - http://gizmodo.com/index.xml
5. Daily Kos: State of the Nation - http://www.dailykos.com - 12,912 blogs link here - feedburner http://feeds.dailykos.com/dailykos/index.xml
6. Techcrunch - http://www.techcrunch.com - 12,022 blogs link here - feedburner - http://feeds.feedburner.com/Techcrunch
7. PostSecret - http://postsecret.blogspot.com - 11,740 blogs link here - feedburner - http://feeds.feedburner.com/Postsecret
8. The Huffington Post - http://www.huffingtonpost.com - 11,228 blogs link here - direct rss - http://www.huffingtonpost.com/raw_feed_index.rdf
9. Lifehacker, the Productivity and Software Guide - http://www.lifehacker.com - 10,255 blogs link here - direct rss
10. Crooks and Liars - http://www.crooksandliars.com - 9,598 blogs link here - feedburner - http://feeds.feedburner.com/crooksandliars/YaCM

In total, out of a total of 150,344 blogs connected to these "top blogs", 44% are fed by Feedburner. Interesting. And this is even more important in smaller blogs. Most people use Feedburner because they are the best. But it poses some risks.

Labels: rss, web