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How I Bumped My RSS Conversion Rate from 16% To 25%

on Dec 17, 2011
How I Bumped My RSS Conversion Rate from 16% To 25%This guest post is by Gab Goldenberg, of The Beginner’s Guide To Usability Testing. Want to find out how to boost RSS subscriber conversion? I did, but I hardly found any information about it online! Besides having an obvious call to action above the fold and getting to [social news site]‘s frontpage, the blogosphere doesn’t much discuss how to convert more readers to subscribers.

Lazyscope – Your Twitter Stream Turned into an RSS Feed

on Jul 30, 2011
Lazyscope – Your Twitter Stream Turned into an RSS FeedLazyscope is a desktop tool works kind of like a feed reader for your Twitter account. Along with reading tweets though, you can also use it to keep up with your favorite RSS feeds. It lets you import your Google Reader feeds and subscribe to other blogs as well. The one thing that some potential users may not like about Lazyscope is that it’s an Adobe AIR application, which many people are not very fond of. Regardless, it installs and runs pretty flawlessly; however, usage is another story.

Readings – The News Reader that Also Lets You Follow Your Favorite Authors

on Jul 10, 2011
Readings – The News Reader that Also Lets You Follow Your Favorite AuthorsThe buzz has been spreading pretty quickly about Readings, an online “community” for those who want to keep up with the latest news on various topics like Business, Entertainment, Photography, Technology, and Social Media. What’s so unique about Readings is that it also lets you follow your favorite authors. It kind of puts me in the mind of Readability, with a news reading service built around it. After a full review of the service, I started to realize what all the fuss is about and I

Keep Up with Your Closest Friends using the Geeje Social Dashboard

on Jul 1, 2011
Keep Up with Your Closest Friends using the Geeje Social DashboardIf you’re like me, you probably have a small group of online friends that you connect with on every social network and you’ve become somewhat like an online family. If that indeed applies to you, then Geeje is the perfect tool to help you keep up with your closest online friends. The concept is pretty simple. First you create a profile of your friend and then you add feeds that apply to them. Don’t think of the word “feeds” as just blog feeds though, it also applies to social

Two Stunning New WordPress Themes

on Jun 16, 2011
Two Stunning New WordPress Themes

I gotta say, if Clark would let me, I’d write up one of these StudioPress updates for you every week.

Is Blogging Really on the Decline?

on Dec 16, 2010
Is Blogging Really on the Decline?

An article on Mashable today discussed a study by Pew Internet that broke down the online activities by age groups, starting with as young as 18 and working up to 74+.

Feedlooks: A New, Convenient Way to Read Your RSS Feeds

on Oct 8, 2010
Feedlooks: A New, Convenient Way to Read Your RSS Feeds

Feedlooks is a new RSS reader that focuses on convenience and simplicity. Though it does not offer a lot of complex or advanced features, the quick speed of the site and nicely designed interface makes it a tool worth using.

The 3 Basic Funnels to Blogging Success

on Sep 13, 2010
The 3 Basic Funnels to Blogging SuccessOnibalusi Bamidele is a 16 year old entrepreneur living the internet lifestyle, subscribe to his blog for more great blog posts. I am sure you would have heard the word funnel once or twice before in relation to making money online. I’d like to define a funnel (in relation to making money online) as a system with which you can cash in income from your online business or as the basic steps you need to go through in order to get the best from your online business.

Good Noows – Read the News in Style While Chatting with Friends

on Jun 19, 2010
Good Noows – Read the News in Style While Chatting with Friends

Good Noows is a sleek personal news reader that lets you share the latest news while chatting with friends on Meebo, Twitter, Facebook Chat, AIM, MySpace IM or Google Talk. It strays away from the common news reader setup and lets you switch up your visual style on the fly. There are 9 unique styles to choose from and most of them are optimized for large monitors.

How do You “Subscribe” to a Site?

on May 20, 2010
How do You “Subscribe” to a Site?

Before we begin, a very quick thought exercise: What do you think of when I say “Subscribe To This Blog”? The reason I ask is simple. When I first started blogging heavily, “subscribing” to a site meant simply one thing, taking the RSS feed of a site and reading it in an RSS reader. It might have been a software RSS reader or a Web-based one, such as Google Reader, but the process was the same.

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