Hi all,
This is no April Fool’s joke ;) ; the Live Search team has just released a dozen new enhancements for its Live Search Maps service available at maps.live.com!
Firefox users now have their own plug-in to use 3-D! Customers complained; we listened. Zooming around the virtual landscape is not just for Internet Explorer Users any more; users of Firefox 1.5 or later can click on the 3D button at http://maps.live.com
It’s been like a day since we’ve talked about Twitter, so I guess it’s time again. (Okay, it’s really been two weeks, but I just keep hearing so much about it that it’s hard to remember that I didn’t write those things!)
So, in our first brush with the IM/SMS-based “miniblogging” platform, Liana Evans had already covered how Twitter could become useful to business. A few businesses caught the ide
It’s been an interesting weekend to watch the blogosphere’s fleeting excitement as one by one, they realize their RSS subscriber count hasn’t actually seen a huge increase, Google’s just made some changes to the way it reports Google Reader and Google Homepage subscribers.
That said, it’s still nice to see your Feedburner stats take a jump.
Darren has more.
Google’s added a nifty little tool to Google Reader that allows you to view stats on your RSS reading trends. I’m not quite sure how this information is going to help me - other than prove I am addicted to blog reading - but it’s somewhat fun to examine.
What would be cool is to see this data across the entire Google Reader user base (anonymous of course)
I used to be among those that felt using a partial-text RSS feed would bring more people to my site. About a year ago, I realized the error of my ways - mostly because I figured Robert Scoble would never subscribe (you do now though, right Robert?) - and switched to full text feeds.
Amanda Watlington and Stephen Spencer both talked about the positive benefits of a full text RSS feed at SES, and now we have further evidence from an experiment Amit Agarwal ran on his blog.
Growth in RSS Subscribers
