I’m very pleased today to announce the release of Capsule, the developer’s code journal. Capsule replaces the scratch document you have…
GameTonight now creates a module for Panic’s excellent Status Board iPad app. The URL is simple, add ‘/statusboard’ to any metro…
I’ve just released an initial beta of Threads, a WordPress plugin I’ve been working on for about a year. The idea is simple: show posts…
Sorry, but not terribly surprised, to see FeedLounge shutting it’s doors for good. It’s a shame, there was a lot of really great stuff in FeedLounge.
As posted on the FeedLounge blog, I’ve left FeedLounge. Here are the quick bits: Last Wednesday, I sold my share of the company to Scott and he is continuing to run the service. I am no longer involved in anything FeedLounge related (except in a historical sense). Scott and I don’t hate each other and…
In our early alpha of FeedLounge we had implemented auto-complete for tags – similar to what you see in the Gmail “to” field and in Google Suggest. I now have the same functionality need for the tagging coming in the next release of Tasks Pro™ and Tasks. We ended up ripping it out because the…
From some of the comments on my previous post, I think I haven’t done a very good job explaining what happened and the nature of how this has affected FeedLounge. I’ll try to do this here, in the form of an O’Grady-style Q & A. Are you telling me your server literally burned up? Yes,…
Last night (actually early this morning) the FeedLounge queue slowed down quite a bit and, of course, some of the users noticed (everything was back to normal by late this morning). As I noted in the forum thread, this is the only time in the last month this has happened, and I’m pretty sure1 it’s…
We’ve released APIs for FeedLounge. I’m looking forward to see what people do with these, and which APIs are requested next. This also knocked 2 highly ranked items off our feature voting list. Progress is good.
I did an e-mail interview about FeedLounge (mainly focused on our business model) for Basement.org.
I took part in a feed reader roundtable conversation for a TalkCrunch podcast today. It should be available tomorrow evening or soon thereafter. This was my first podcast, I think I probably stumbled on my words more than you’re supposed to – oh well.
We’ve added some great new features to FeedLounge in the SOG release: The ability to pass your FeedLounge item tags on to del.icio.us with TagThru™. The ability to sort items from oldest to newest. We’ve also upped the 3 hour tour to a 24 hour tour – check it out.
FeedLounge was included in a web-based feed reader roundup on TechCrunch. There were a couple of minor errors in the FeedLounge column of the chart, but I’m sure they’ll be fixed. We should be able to add a couple more marks next to items in our column pretty soon as well. It’s nice to be…
Yesterday WordPress version 2.0.2 was released, fixing several security issues. If you haven’t upgraded already, you should go do so. I spent most of my Friday upgrading WordPress installations (this blog, my Golf blog, the FeedLounge site and the King Design site). For the most part, everything went smoothly – however there were a few…
It looks like the host for feedlounge.com has gone away for the moment. Hopefully it will be back soon. FeedLounge itself is still up and running. If you’re a FeedLounge customer, you can get in by going directly to http://my.feedlounge.com/. UPDATE: We’re back up.
I did a little cleanup on the OPML generated by FeedLounge today. The old OPML was basically the result of copying examples found in the wild, so I went through the necessary steps validating the output, reading the specs, and double-checking what I was seeing against NetNewsWire’s output. I fixed most of the issues, but…
Day 2 of Mashup Camp was a little more informal (if that’s possible) than day 1 – it was quite interesting to see everyone’s creations in action and discuss various development challenges with them. Special thanks to: my travel partner Steve, Adam, DeWitt, Anil, Niall, Davey, Tim and everyone else I had the pleasure of…
Mashup Camp is my first “unconference” experience – it’s been quite interesting. The basic theory is to get a bunch of people together and let them geek out in loose groups on various topics, with little to no structure. It worked surprisingly well – Steve was impressed as well. The sessions I attended today: API…