Amit Agarwal informs us that FeedBurner has upgraded the FeedSmith plugin for WordPress to plug a potential security vulenrability, which means that it is an required update. The upgrade is really simple. Even if you are using the older version, just disable it, delete the older file, upload the new one, enable it and you are good to go. [Continue]
I was waiting for some kind of notice to us, the users, regarding the buyout. But the one at the login prompt was scary than informative. NOTE: Service of FeedBurner publisher accounts will not be interrupted as a result of the acquisition by Google. [Continue]
So the rumours were true and many feeds, like this blog’s will now be burnt at Google. FeedBurner is an excellent service, does most of the feed negotiations for you, gives good statistcs and takes load of your server for serving feeds. However, a warning keeps popping up to wonder whether this will end up in unwanted advertising in the feeds. [Continue]
I have started using Steve Smith’s Feedburner Plugin to ensure that all subscribers get the same experience. It redirects the Wordpress feed subscriber for posts and comments of this blog to the Feedburner feed for posts and comments both. It will also help me implement at least one of the suggestions for reducing the bandwidth usage. [Continue]
Well, not about this blog or its subscription base. But about the top web based feed readers. A while back Bloglines was reported as the top feed reader. [Continue]