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Re: An important lesson in business success: Use your product

RexHammock — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 16:40:12 -0000

Nick. You're da man when it comes to this.

Re: An important lesson in business success: Use your product

nbradbury — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 12:19:34 -0000

Agree completely, Rex. In the software world, I'd go a step further and say that you should only build something *you* need (which is something I've blogged about - see http://nick.typepad.com/blog/2007/03/indie_tip_... ).

Re: Google Wave crashes on beach of overhype

nbradbury — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 00:44:03 -0000

It's a shame to see so much dismissing of Wave based on the frontend, when the backend is the interesting part. The frontend isn't trying to be an upgrade to email or Twitter, but perhaps the backend is trying to be an upgrade to HTTP?

Re: Serious conversations? Not on Twitter

StevenHodson — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 20:07:19 -0000

I wouldn't even want to try doing anything like that especially when it comes to a popular program like FeedDemon.

Re: Serious conversations? Not on Twitter

nbradbury — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 19:45:40 -0000

Yeah, that's the same reason I just can't do tech support on Twitter. Not enough room to really figure things out.

Re: All the angst over Atom (Scripting News)

nbradbury — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 21:48:04 -0000

Start here: http://www.simpsoncrazy.com/content/pictures/ho... :)

Re: All the angst over Atom (Scripting News)

dave — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 21:44:42 -0000

I have to learn that blank stare thing. :-)

Re: All the angst over Atom (Scripting News)

nbradbury — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 21:40:14 -0000

Well, it's fair to say I have similar concerns. I don't want someone not to try FeedDemon because they heard RSS isn't "cool" anymore (and let's face it, most geeks desperately want to be cool, whether they admit it or not). But if presented with the opportunity to talk with these people, just ask where they heard that RSS isn't cool, and nine times out of 10 they'll say they read it in the feeds they're subscribed to in their RSS reader. In which case, just give them a blank stare until they realize the error of their ways :)

Re: All the angst over Atom (Scripting News)

dave — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 20:16:04 -0000

My concern is that some Dilbert-like thinker at some big publisher might hear this BS and decide to pull their feeds. RIght now that's not happening. But I've seen weirder things. (During the Atom uproar, every meeting I had with a publisher focused on this subject. Wasted a lot of time, at least, and might have significantly delayed some projects.)

Re: All the angst over Atom (Scripting News)

nbradbury — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 19:56:41 -0000

Honestly, I find that most of these tech battles can be avoided by simply asking yourself, "do people using my software really give a damn?" More often than not, they don't. Which, for the record, is why I'm staying out of the whole "RSS is dead" thing.

Re: All the angst over Atom (Scripting News)

dave — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 19:45:14 -0000

Well said Nick. The battles were mostly to try to get me to admit something. I said "bring it on" let's have another format. Even after I endorsed it, they still said I was opposed to it. Those were terrible days when discourse in the tech community was almost all negative. Thankful it all eventually calmed down.

Re: All the angst over Atom (Scripting News)

nbradbury — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 19:08:33 -0000

Exactly. I remember all the feed format battles, and wondering if any of those involved in them had ever written an aggregator that supported more than one format. Adding Atom support to FeedDemon way back when was no big deal - I've spent more time trying to design a toolbutton icon than I did adding Atom support.

Re: Programming wisdom (Scripting News)

nbradbury — Sun, 16 Aug 2009 16:18:06 -0000

I'm re-learning your first bit of wisdom at this very moment, as I'm forced to completely rewrite some code (Google Reader sync) that I made far too complicated the first time around.

Re: Yooouuutuuube Puts YouTube on LSD

nbradbury — Sun, 10 May 2009 16:47:09 -0000

Adds a whole new dimension to Beaker doing "Ode to Joy"

http://www.yooouuutuuube.com/v/?rows=20&cols=20...

Re: URL Shorteners: Please Resolve

nbradbury — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 21:51:36 -0000

In most case, you can resolve a short URL by doing a HEAD request and then checking the redirect header for the long URL. This is what FeedDemon does to resolve short URLs, as described at http://nick.typepad.com/blog/2008/12/coming-in-...

Re: Enough bitching – Feedburner housecleaning time

nbradbury — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 19:06:48 -0000

When our RSS readers encounter the 301 redirect that FeedBurner issues, we do change the XmlUrl for the feed. But I'm not aware of how to do that once the 30 days are up, since FeedBurner issues a 404 after that time.

Re: Enough bitching – Feedburner housecleaning time

rizzn — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 18:42:34 -0000

Nick, do you rss reader products automatically change the subscription as Google Reader does after the 30 day redirection is done?

Re: Enough bitching – Feedburner housecleaning time

rizzn — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 18:13:16 -0000

I've played with the re-direct pretty extensively, and at some point during
the 30-day redirection, Google simply changes the source address for the
feed to the new address whenever it sees the 301 (not sure if it's instantly
or after a time).

Re: Enough bitching – Feedburner housecleaning time

nbradbury — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 07:40:28 -0000

Keep in mind that after you delete it, your Feedburner feed will redirect to your blog feed for 30 days (if you choose that option upon deletion). So, this change shouldn't have a huge impact on your readership.

Re: Is Your Feed Reader Becoming Boring?

nbradbury — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 21:59:03 -0000

Thanks for the nice mention of FeedDemon, Corvida!

Re: I hate winter

StevenHodson — Sat, 20 Dec 2008 18:31:34 -0000

you might be a great developer Nick but you are a cruel cruel man .. 70 degrees .. ouch that hurts :)

Re: I hate winter

nbradbury — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 22:05:41 -0000

You can count me as a winter hater, too. If it showed on Christmas but stayed warm the rest of the year, I'd be happy.

BTW, it was 70 degrees here in Nashville today. I can live with that :)

Re: With RSS ads is it right to form communities around feeds

mattshaulis — Sat, 31 May 2008 01:00:33 -0000

hehehe... my mistake.... consider my initial remark backdated. I've only had the pleasure of WinExtra for a few months but I must say it's one of the daily dozen ;)

Re: With RSS ads is it right to form communities around feeds

nbradbury — Sat, 31 May 2008 00:15:30 -0000

I actually didn't find this post because it mentioned FeedDemon -- I've been subscribed to WinExtra for a while, and it remains one of my favorite reads. But then again, I did find this blog in the first place because Steven posted something about FeedDemon... :)

Re: With RSS ads is it right to form communities around feeds

mattshaulis — Fri, 30 May 2008 23:20:34 -0000

I agree.

I think most people who have developed any type of social aggregation service in the past few years has read your opinions heavily. :-) I remember reading that bit about filtering "items" and how that might be abused to filter "ad serving" items... I remember thinking of the implications of that early on... We never wanted to strip ads or try to skirt the bloggers revenue model, whatever that may be... It's hard to consider every angle... Some people tell us "if you want community, then trim my content down to fair use 150 Chars. or less" and then Steve so aptly points out that trimming the html and chopping the content to 150 chars. is in essence stripping out ads intended it to be there... Everybody is right, yet nobody is right... It's a baffling scenario but, like you, I jut have a passion for the stuff.. what can I say... :) (Impressive speed too... FeedDemon is mentioned, here's Nick Bradbury... hehehe... I like it.)