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…
One of the features we’d planned (and built) for FeedLounge was the ability to save feed items from feeds you are subscribed to. We thought it would be a pretty cool feature, and one that Scott was particularly excited about. However, as we talked to more and more people about features they wanted in a…
FeedLounge has been updated to alpha 6, and now works in IE (Win) and Safari.
Yesterday I posted some, as it turns out, unfounded concerns about FeedBurner’s new FeedFlare features and how they would impact me as a reader of many great blog authors who use FeedBurner’s service. Thanks again to Eric and Dick from FeedBurner for helping me get the facts straight. Today, I’m putting on my feed reader…
UPDATE: FeedBurner CTO Eric Lunt was kind enough to explain to me that most of my concerns are unfounded. I should have known that they would avoid these issues. However, as a feed reader developer, I’ve got some additional follow-up thoughts for another post. FeedBurner‘s FeedFlare announcement has a lot of people excited. While I…
I’ve spent the last several days getting FeedLounge compatible with IE – not my favorite way to spend time. When we made the decision to support Firefox first, it was with the knowledge that the IE and Safari ports would have to happen – but that doesn’t make it any less painful. There were a…
There is a great conversation going on about web applications and scalability, with FeedLounge as an example. A few months back, there was a meme going around talking about how cheap it was to build a web based application/service/company compared to our recent past. While this may be the case in various instances, the scalability…
I’ve posted a big entry over on the FeedLounge blog. It explains where FeedLounge is today, why the public release has been delayed, and how and when things are moving forward.
I’ve updated all my FeedLounge Greasemonkey scripts and bookmarklets to work with the latest FeedLounge release (alpha 5). There are scripts that take the currently selected item in FeedLounge, and: post it to del.icio.us populate an e-mail create a new task in Tasks Pro™ or Tasks append a link (suitable for a link dump, like…
We’ve switched the FeedLounge database engine from MySQL to PostgreSQL.
As everyone knows, Google launched their own feed reader last week. I figured that this was coming sooner or later, but my first response was still along the lines of “ah crap”. Since I’ve been working hard on a web based feed reader of my own, I wasn’t really excited to see an 800 pound…
No matter how you think people will use software you design and build, they will always surprise you; often in interesting ways. In the case of FeedLounge, our users are generally coming over from a previous feed reader and have a feed reading routine that they’ve developed with that software. The feedback we get is…
I’d have to say that the California trip was, while tiring, definitely a success. Besides the opportunity to meet some smart and interesting people and learn quite a bit, I was able to reconnect briefly with old and dear friends. Thanks to all of you who made time to get together this week, I thoroughly…
Tomorrow night at 6:30pm, Scott and I will be hosting a little FeedLounge meetup at the Borders in Palo Alto. I’m looking forward to talking with everyone and showing off FeedLounge1. Stop by if you’re in the area. And maybe talking to a few Tasks users? [back]
Scott and I will be in the Bay Area (peninsula area mostly) next Wednesday and Thursday for a couple FeedLounge meetings. Get in touch if you’re in the area and you’d like to get together. We’re also looking at setting up in a coffee shop for an hour or two to demo the product and…
My post on the FeedLounge blog discussing contextual ads has spawned some interesting conversation in the comments. Several people feel it would be a very bad thing to put advertising in a feed reader, others don’t have an issue with it. I’m not going to try to tackle everything here, but I thought it would…