Artwork, web projects, and updates to LiamDaly.com
Sunday, March 12, 2006
Edgeio Update
Since launching, the people at Edgeio have been quite busy smoothing and improving features.
Quicker than I expected they've addressed the issue of including those who find tagging and pinging alien. Even though those functions are already performed automatically by many blogging platforms - if you don't know that then you might shy away from Edgeio or similar services. "Instant Add" is the feature you can use to by-pass having to learn about tags and pings.
One day I suspect people will simply have their Feed address on their business card.Feeds are driving the web right now, and it's the new businesses that harness feeds that will be the next wave of web successes. Edgeio takes feeds from every direction, pushing and pulling as necessary. It's like a feed brokerage.
In my sidebar here I have my Atom feed and my RSS feed of this blog. And I've now just added an RSS feed from Edgeio of my stuff listed for sale there. So if you're always interested in whatever I might be putting up for sale, but in-between taking the kids to school and getting the laundry done you don't have the time to read all the extra words I tend to write - well you just need to subscribe to that feed in your favourite Feed Reader, like Bloglines or MyYahoo etc. - and it will let you know when I post something there.
What? You don't use a Feed Reader (or News Aggregator). You should you know - it would save you tons of time. Today, using feeds, I check over eighty websites a day, and all day - but I do it in about one tenth of the time it took me to check the fifteen websites or so I used to by going individually to each site and checking them. With feeds you get more done. Including laundry.
If you're not ready for conversion yet, I've also put an old-fashioned link to my page on Edgeio.
Quicker than I expected they've addressed the issue of including those who find tagging and pinging alien. Even though those functions are already performed automatically by many blogging platforms - if you don't know that then you might shy away from Edgeio or similar services. "Instant Add" is the feature you can use to by-pass having to learn about tags and pings.
One day I suspect people will simply have their Feed address on their business card.Feeds are driving the web right now, and it's the new businesses that harness feeds that will be the next wave of web successes. Edgeio takes feeds from every direction, pushing and pulling as necessary. It's like a feed brokerage.
In my sidebar here I have my Atom feed and my RSS feed of this blog. And I've now just added an RSS feed from Edgeio of my stuff listed for sale there. So if you're always interested in whatever I might be putting up for sale, but in-between taking the kids to school and getting the laundry done you don't have the time to read all the extra words I tend to write - well you just need to subscribe to that feed in your favourite Feed Reader, like Bloglines or MyYahoo etc. - and it will let you know when I post something there.
What? You don't use a Feed Reader (or News Aggregator). You should you know - it would save you tons of time. Today, using feeds, I check over eighty websites a day, and all day - but I do it in about one tenth of the time it took me to check the fifteen websites or so I used to by going individually to each site and checking them. With feeds you get more done. Including laundry.
If you're not ready for conversion yet, I've also put an old-fashioned link to my page on Edgeio.
And Here's The Stuff I Wrote Earlier:
