Jeffrey Vanneste

If anyone has actually subscribed to my old RSS feed it will made inactive in the following weeks. If you want to keep reading my blog you can subscribe to the new feed here.

http://feeds.feedburner.com/jeffreyvanneste

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.

I finally got around to updating my blog. I updated the Contact page and 2 of the projects I was working on. The new Bunnyhug Software game I'm working on doesn't have any information really but the PHP based Carcassonne game has a screenshot and the current project status.
Now all I have left to do is the about page.

Bloglines announced today Bloglines Webservices. This is a set of API that you can call from any application to your bloglines account. It looks like there are already a few programs that soon (or already do) support this new API. I imagine there will be some more sophisticated bloglines notifiers coming out soon. Excellent :)

Well I finally got around to upgrading this blog from 2.66 to 3.0 of Movable Type. Hopefully this will eliminate all the comment spam that I was getting. Couple of changes coming up to the blog soon and I'm going to attempt at being more active in posting more regularly here. Anyways, back to getting this blog all the way upgraded.