Author: Rick Klau

OK, OK. I give up. I’m on Twitter. When I first heard about Twitter, I thought it was just a way to render SMS as useful as e-mail (which is to say, not very). But as with many tools that are now an indispensable part of my online life (RSS, Flickr, Youtube, Gmail, Facebook, Google…

I don’t care which baseball team you root for, if you have any interest in professional sports, you should take a look at Red Sox pitcher Curt Schilling’s blog. His first posts are remarkable. My favorites so far: On baseball’s recent deal with DirecTV: “I don’t think there’s any doubt that we are still trying…

Here’s part 2 of the film made of Paul Curreri at the Glee Club last summer: [youtube 0qtzfBB-aTA] More later.

Don’t know why it didn’t occur to me earlier, but I just checked YouTube out for any videos of Paul Curreri. You may recall that we were fortunate enough to have Paul perform at our house last summer; he’s got a new album coming out later this month (“The Velvet Rut”) – you really need…

One of the gifts of working in a small company is the opportunity to interact with every aspect of the business. Not only is it rare for someone to look at a different part of the company and remark “That’s not my job”, but if the culture’s right, it’s actually frowned upon. I like that…

Really excited with the latest post we put up today at the company blog: FeedBurner’s View of the Feed Market. The gist of the post is this: for all the attention focused on subscriber numbers, they’re an incomplete metric to use when evaluating a feed’s audience. What good are a million subscribers if they never…

About a month ago I was starting to recognize (OK, Robin was pointing them out) that I was getting a tad burnt out. I was getting to bed after 1am, sometimes 2am (and up at 6); the laptop was starting to occupy increasing amounts of family time (and if the laptop wasn’t nearby, then the…

OK, this isn’t exactly a bold prediction: as we noted on our company blog, Google is now reporting subcsriber numbers to feed publishers. What this means is that starting tomorrow morning, if you use FeedBurner you’ll see your subscriber number grow because we’ll be able to tell you how many Google Reader (or Personalized Hompage)…

For more than 3 years, I’ve been a very happy Salesforce.com user. Unlike more bloated CRM applications that require training, lengthy implementation cycles and user revolt, Salesforce.com is in the sweet spot of sophistication and simplicity. For us at FeedBurner, it’s been a great way to scale our lead management and is taking a growing…

I wrote about Facebook a couple weeks ago, and since then have spent a bit of time playing around. Prior to this, I’d only really spent time on MySpace, which often left me wanting to curl up into a fetal position and weep. Fourteen years of lessons learned in web design and that is the…