Jeffrey Vanneste

I jumped on the bandwagon today and gave FeedBurner a try. I'm super impressed with this web service. What is FeedBurner? FeedBurner takes any type of RSS feed from your site and juices it up. The free service keeps track of stats, offers the feed in pretty much any format of RSS supported by all the popular readers, link in Google Ads, automatically add in bookmarks you add (del.icio.us and bloglines clippings supported), automatically add in Flickr photos, and so much more. The thing is that they make it super easy to link in all this other content. Adding in google ads was as simple as giving FeedBurner my Google Ad client ID. Del.icio.us links, just give them my del.icio.us ID. Flickr photos, no problem, just enter your flickr friendly name. The result is a single feed that will be supported by pretty much every news reader. Now I can see when I get more than 1 reader.

Onto Flickr, I've been avoiding trying flickr since I figured I would either not be impressed with it or I would love it and would be unable to resist paying for an account. I was always under the impression that the free account enforced smaller picture sizes. I don't know where I got that idea but I had it. I have been using Zoto which offers a lot of space but everything else I haven't been impressed with. The tagging features are pretty weak, the photo uploader caused me issues, and it just doesn't have the finesse of flickr. Anyways, Flickr makes it super easy to integrate with a blog, lots of bulk editing features, adding notes onto photos is really cool, and the photo uploader worked without any issues for me.

If you haven't tried these services out and you have a blog then give them a try.