Feedmarker Blog

Launched a few Ajax-y improvements last night that you might not even notice:

Like I mentioned earlier, the ‘related users’ widget now loads only when you hover over it.
The tag list on the right side of the page now refreshes every time a feed reaches zero new items (i.e. you’ve marked them all read). That [...]

Check out Penguin’s Lust Cafe, where Feedmarker user Manic has released two really cool tools to link up Firefox and Feedmarker:

a search plugin to add the Feedmarker search to your Firefox search toolbar.
Feedmark v.1.1, a Firefox extension that makes adding feeds and bookmarks to Feedmarker a breeze.
Check them both out

I’ve been using XMLHttpRequest on Feedmarker for inline editing, marking and deleting sources for some time, but this weekend I put it to a new use: speeding up page loads. Here’s how I shaved a second off the average page load time:The little navigation widget (section?) in the upper right is one of my favorite [...]

Go read Doc Searl’s essay in the Linux journal, called “Getting Flat, Part 2”. Seriously, go read it.Commenting on Microsoft’s (and others’) practice of screening job applicants by IQ scores:
I can save Microsoft a pile of time and money by reporting a fact no school wants to admit, one that will flatten the world far [...]

Not my roommate Josh, but Joshua Schachter, creator of del.icio.us . Del.icio.us kicked off the whole tagging applications meme, so it’ll be nice to have its founder and lead developer contributing his ideas (although, to be fair, Josh has already been contributing through the del.icio.us mailing list and in other places).Del.icio.us just got VC funding [...]

Wow, I just hate Grey’s Anatomy. Nevertheless, here I am. Or should I say; here we are…Anyway, some changes on Feedmarker:The main page now shows only the most popular tags on the right side (that list was getting a mite bit unwieldly, yes?). You’ll still see all your tags when you’re browsing your sources.Feed filters: [...]

Not sure if this is happening to everybody, but I’m seeing tons of duplicate items in my feeds this morning. I’m investigating, but I think it has something to do with a cron job that went wild (started running every minute).

I got a hold of a Backpack account from 37signals this weekend. They’re the creators of Basecamp and Tada Lists and probably the leading driver behind all this Ruby on Rails madness.

Backpack, like all the other Signals’ projects, is pretty to look at, easy to use, and feature-focused (meaning it does a few things, and [...]