FeedBurner’s MyBrand now free thanks to Google
Thanks to Google’s new “swallow up every business that sort of relates to something we do” business strategy, FeedBurner‘s MyBrand service is now free to everyone. It probably won’t matter to most people, but to anyone that runs a site with RSS feeds it will provide great value. It basically allows you to get all the advantages of FeedBurner, but without sacrificing your domain name on your feeds URLs.
I know that sometimes when I use Google Reader to search and subscribe to feeds, there’s one for the site itself and a separate FeedBurner one, and I never really know which one to pick. Hopefully people will start using this service and eliminate that problem as well.
First Post
I tend to be a pretty private person, so starting this blog will be an interesting experiment for me in terms of branching out beyond my typical comfort zone.
I was actually inspired to do this one night after leaving The Living Room in Point Loma. There’s an older gentleman that frequents the shop most nights, perhaps in his 60′s, and he just comes in and uses the Internet until they close at midnight and then rides his motorcycle off into the distance.
One night we happened to start chatting and got into all kinds of discussions, including things like neuroscience, engineering, technology’s effect on culture and society, and sailboats. He actually lives on a sailboat and travels all over the world in it and uses his motorcycle to get to places with Internet access so that he can listen to podcasts and watch videos. Anyway, we just had a really fascinating discussion and made me yearn for more discussion on a wide variety of topics, which is why I started this blog. I’m hoping it will give me an outlet for my random thoughts and facilitate discussion with my friends worldwide.
This is the first of what I hope to be many posts, so please comment away!
