SuperFeedr and PubSubHubBub

Posted by Anthony in Technology, chi.mp, chi.mp on August 11, 2010

One of the challenges I deal with on a daily basis is trying to keep the feed data flowing into chi.mp home pages. It is very challenging to consume tens-of-thousands of feeds in a reliable fashion. For a long time we did this internally out of necessity. Now though we no longer need to manage this internally thanks to Superfeedr.

I started considering the idea of using Superfeedr well over six months ago, but still had concerns about their stability and viability – ultimately I got over that and realized that I need to outsource this part of chi.mp. This week I finally pushed out code for chi.mp that uses SuperFeedr’s PubSubHubBub hub to receive feed updates. Initially I used their XMPP interface, however after repeated encouragement from Julien @ Superfeedr I made the switch over to PubSubHubBub with only a small amount of work.

I still have to move a bunch of feeds over to use Superfeedr but I feel at least part of the burden of managing all of these various feeds beginning to leave my shoulders, and for that I am very thankful.

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Back and Shipping In

Posted by Anthony in Videos on July 7, 2010

Return from the abyss. In today’s video blog I talk about where I’ve been and give you some thoughts about what I’ll be presenting in my next video blog entries. Oh, and I mention DNSimple of course.

Also available on YouTube.

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Ship It! DNSimple.com Is Launched

Posted by Anthony in DNSimple, Technology on July 5, 2010

The last couple of weeks I’ve been working hard on putting the finishing touches on DNSimple, a new hosted domain name management service for small businesses and entrepreneurs. After working on domain services for more than 10 years, both as a domain registrar back in the late ’90s and through operating a domain registry and registrar for several years, it’s time for me to put together a DNS service that caters to the needs of other entrepreneurs like me.

What are the specifics? For $10/month you can to manage up to 50 domains using DNSimple. Each domain can have as many records as you need. Our DNS servers are updated almost instantly as you add records to your domain. We support TTL times as low as 1 minute. Repetitive changes can be set up as templates and we already include a default template for setting up Google MX records for domains that host their mail at Google.

I look forward to getting feedback on what you think of the service, what could be improved and what if anything would keep you from adopting it. You can either contact me via email or send me a message on Twitter. Thanks!

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Company Organization

Posted by Anthony in Videos on June 20, 2010

Tonight I talk about defining a company organizational structure. Even if you’re going to do all the jobs at the beginning, you’ll be better off knowing what you’re getting into.

And on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=51xTFOpQNcs

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Motivation

Posted by Anthony in Videos on June 18, 2010

Today’s video blog entry is a quick one on motivation, presented to you as a means to get myself motivated.

And on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L5JGEWjYycQ

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Keep Costs Low

Posted by Anthony in Videos on June 16, 2010

In this video blog entry I talk about how to keep your costs down by using free software, low cost services and by learning instead of paying someone else to the job.

As always, find it on YouTube as well: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gL0mUtVOqf0

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Know Your Customer

Posted by Anthony in Videos on June 15, 2010

Today I talk about knowing your customer by writing down and answering two questions: what does my customer want? and how do I give them what they want?

You can also see the video on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bnlv5ii9ySY

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Beliefs and Personal Goals – And Revenue

Posted by Anthony in Uncategorized on June 14, 2010

Today’s video blog entry is all about beliefs and goals.

If you are on an iPad you can see the video on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FBjRyNdZH7w

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First Video Blog Entry

Posted by Anthony in Videos on June 13, 2010

I’m trying a new experiment…well, actually several at the same time. First, I’m trying my hand at video blogging. The topic of the video blog is about my attempts to develop and operate a business. Let’s have some fun…

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Posting to WordPress from my iPad

Posted by Anthony in Flotsam, Technology on April 5, 2010

I don’t blog much, that’s no secret, however with the iPad and specifically the WordPress app on the iPad I might change that. Time will tell how well this works out.

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