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Tuesday, October 7, 2008

Install Feed Manager

There are two options when installing Feed Manager: Download and install the Feed Manager archive manually Install via the Plugin Manager plugin for Movable Type... Read More

Atom CSS Stylesheet
Feeds were never designed to be consumed by humans. They were meant to be processed by machines. That is why feeds are in XML. However, many Internet users find themselves one way or another looking at the XML of a...

Softstunt Video to iPhone Converter 4.0

Softstunt Video to iPhone Converter 4.0
A powerful yet easy to use software to convert your video and audio files to your iPhone. A powerful yet easy to use software to convert your video and audio files to your iPhone. (read more)

jslibs 0.9 R1881

jslibs 0.9 R1881
A standalone JavaScript development runtime environment for using JavaScript as a general-purpose scripting language A standalone JavaScript development runtime environment for using JavaScript as a general-purpose scripting language (read more)

Technorati Claiming set-up

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ComponentSet 2.3.0

This application provides you with a swing component suite. This application provides you with a swing component suite. (read more) Read More

Tri-Trick 1.5

A brand new puzzle game with 3 levels of difficulty, based on a very simple rule yet quite challenging.

About Tri-Trick
A brand new puzzle game with 3 levels of difficulty. Though level 1 is funny enough for most people, there’re always some people asking for more challenge.

At level 1, rearranging 9 digits back into sequential order is quite challenging enough. But even you can do that, the game is not over yet.

If you’re over the average and want some really mind-twisted games, you can play Tri-Trick with less digits (8 or 7). The less digits you play with, the more funny game you have.

Solving this puzzle requires a lot of brain work. Enjoy it!

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Amazing Tilt-Shift Time-Lapse Videos Make Lilliputians of Us All [Photography]

Amazing Tilt-Shift Time-Lapse Videos Make Lilliputians of Us All [Photography]
Tilt-shift lenses sit off-center of the film (or sensor) plane of your camera to produce photos with extremely limited depth of field, giving the effect of a macro shot of a tiny scene. When the...

SpringWidgets loves iGoogle

There is a lot of press today on Google Homepages... oops... I mean "iGoogle"

Since we at SpringWidgets are really big fans of Google and everything they do. I thought this would be a great time to officially say how much we love the iGoogle page by letting everyone know that we have recently added in support for automatic posting of all SpringWidgets into your personalized iGoogle page!

Just choose the widget you are interested in, configure it however you like it to look and function and then select the Google icon in the share it box.

The whole process takes only a few seconds and is one of the easiest ways to put one of our widgets on a page that we have available. Way to go Google!

With all the recent focus on widgets, it's not surprising that everyone is building a widget destination of some sort. We at SpringWidgets will continue to build support for each new destination as APIs become available and look forward to helping enable 2007 truly being the year of the widget.

Here is my iGoogle page. Complete with today's MLB games and a countdown to the next episode of NBC's Heroes!

John Chow vs Shoemoney RSS competition

RSS is now one of the most valuable metrics on the net. Increasing your RSS subscriber count is a measurable way to show the popularity of your site. As RSS is an opt in way for readers to view your site contents, they can easily stop being a subscriber at any time.

It shows how far RSS has come when John Chow and Shoemoney start a competition to see who can get the most new subscribers in a month. Notice how it wasn't a competition to get the most traffic or the most subscribers to an email list but who can get the most RSS subscribers.

Why RSS subscribers

John and Shoe are both canny marketers and know the value of RSS. RSS is a transparent metric that shows a loyal readership. If a site starts to slide in it's content then readers will no longer subscribe. They would rather gain an RSS subscriber than an extra visitor.

Whilst the challenge is a bit of fun there is also a serious reason John and Shoe have gotten together to run this little competition. At the end of the competition they will both have a larger loyal subscriber base. This competition has gained them a large number of new subscribers which generally means more revenue for them.

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Sony Fondles New DS with One Hand, Bitchslaps with the Other [Nintendo]

In the wake of Nintendo's announcement of the DSi, Sony reached out and asked if we'd like to discuss the event and get their side of the story. Sony talking about Nintendo? How could we resist?? So... Read More

Snap + AddThis = Shared Snap Shots

Snap + AddThis = Shared Snap Shots
Today, we are very pleased to announce a new partnership between Snap and AddThis. You’ve seen them everywhere…Snap Shots are a great tool that allows you to look at web sites/pages without clicking on the links. Now, you can not only look at these web sites/pages, but you can also bookmark them and share them with other [...]

Today, we are very pleased to announce a new partnership between Snap and AddThis.

You’ve seen them everywhere…Snap Shots are a great tool that allows you to look at web sites/pages without clicking on the links.

Now, you can not only look at these web sites/pages, but you can also bookmark them and share them with other people with just a few clicks. See the AddThis ‘Share’ button in the sample Snap Shot below.

When you click the button you can now bookmark and share the Snap Shot via Email, Digg, Delicious, Facebook, MySpace, etc:

Enjoy! See you around the Snaposphere!

-Dom

The value of an RSS subscriber at 30 dollars

Have you ever wondered how much each subscriber to your RSS feed is worth. Well according to Mark over at 45n5 that magic number is currently $30. Mark arrived at this figure by dividing the price blogs have recently sold for by the number of subscribers to the blog.

I have previously made predictions about RSS playing a more important role back in October 2006. It looks like RSS is now an important metric to measure the success of a site and it is also starting to play a larger role in deciding the monetary value of a blog.

RSS subscribers and their value

Although Mark's use of RSS as a measurement of value was just a bit of fun it does show that RSS is a valued metric. A year ago most webmasters and readers would not have placed much if any value in the number of subscribers you have.

As RSS becomes a more valued metric the value of the RSS feed itself will grow. There are going to be more advertisers willing to buy advertising in an RSS feed and the value of RSS will grow. This is because many RSS subscribers do not click through to the website itself but use the feed to consume the content.