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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…

Barack Obama just concluded his announcement speech in Springfield. To a crowd estimated to be 10-15,000 supporters, he declared he’s officially running for President. The crowd’s a hearty bunch: it’s hovering right around zero degrees today. Visitors to my site will see a link to a fundraising page I built using the new Barack Obama…

Just watched Barack’s preview of tomorrow’s announcement in Springfield. About half-way through, he talks about the new site that will go live as soon as his announcement’s official (transcription is mine, may not be 100%): I hope that you use this website as a tool to organize your friends, your neighbors and your networks. The…

A postscript to last night’s update — though it worked on 99%+ of the posts, several posts that already had hyphens in them were resulting in 404 errors. If you’re running WordPress, I found two plugins that you should absolutely look into using: 404 Notifier. This monitors any 404 errors and notifies you by e-mail…

Last week, I gave up on my Treo and replaced it with a Samsung D807. It’s not a smart phone, it doesn’t have a keyboard. But thanks to the phone, I switched from Outlook full-time to Gmail. And after just a couple days, I’m hooked. OK, the details: the D807 is one of many phones…

Well, it’s almost a year late. When I converted from Movable Type to WordPress, one of the things I put off doing was switch to WordPress permalinks for individual posts. I know, this sounds like a completely useless discussion – whether your posts are published at blog.com/2006/10/12/some_post.php or blog.com/2006/10/12/some-post.php couldn’t be more boring, right? Wrong.…

Wow, this is just fascinating. Congrats to Ross and the Socialtext crew for making this happen… it’s exciting to see such a wonderful example of civic engagement made more effective through the use of technology. Update: Britt Blaser has some background on how this came to be; it’s just so cool to see how this…

A lot of sites have pointed out recently that some Republicans like to “slur” the Democratic Party by dropping the ‘ic’ and calling them the “Democrat Party”. Greg over at TPM raises it today on TPM, pointing to a Washington Post article that contains this graf: Some liberal bloggers and party strategists saw the president’s…