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Yesterday I mentioned Google released its Gears tool for taking web apps off line. Today Lifehacker posted a how-to for taking Google Reader off-line. I may have to give this a try. I went back to Greatnews a couple months ago because I liked the portability and off line access via my USB thumb drive.
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I hear it from time to time. People complain that they blog but they have no readers. Is there anything that can be done about it? Now seems like a nice time to have a look at this topic.
First take a step back and get over your bad self. No one owes you their readership. [...]

If you’re a blogger you’ll want to keep track of who is linking to you. One way is to go to Google’s Blogsearch and enter link:yourblogurl to find out who is linking.
Another method is to use my new Yahoo! Pipe. Simply enter your URL (without the HTTP part), click Run Pipe then click Subscribe to subscribe to the [...]

I need to ponder this rumor for a bit but it wouldn’t surprise me. They both have ads and it would give Google nice foray into the feed market. They could even roll their analytics together and provide a nice package. Just as long as they don’t mess with the service and the Feedburner attitude.
 
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The best explanation of RSS I’ve seen. Don’t even try, just tell people to watch it.

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Marketing Pilgrim has an article on how Feedburner could be getting your links instead of your site.
Feedburner provides a service for tracking clicks in your feed. They aren’t trying to be evil or anything, just trying to add value to their service. The problem comes into play when your feed gets scraped by others or [...]

I received word from Randy Morin via IM earlier today that Rmail is now property of NBC Universal. This is really cool. Definitely a case of the Internet allowing an after-hours project to move into a main stream app that people rely on. Then moving it on to a group who is excited about the [...]