My home connection is still not ready. My phone was connected today but by the time the broadband connection comes alive, I am told will take 4 days.
Anyways I was impressed by the response time from the BSNL guys today. Will let you know about it soon. I need to go home now. I am looking at new ways to update this blog. Lot of exciting opportunities out there.
You have a great weekend! (I am hoping to attend the Seven program conducted by my church here in Chennai tomorrow.)
Google has made the premium features of FeedBurner available for free. MyBrand and Stats Pro.
FeedBurner MyBrand allows you to have your feed at your own domain. That means – complete ownership is with you. Of course, it also means that your blog must be published on your own domain and space. If you want to activate the MyBrand service, click on My Account link at the top of the page after logging into your FeedBurner account. The My Brand option is available on the left side of the page.
FeedBurner StatsPro gives you detailed stats of who is accessing your blog and feed. Quite nifty! These can be accessed from within your account – My Feeds > “Your Feed” > Analyze tab and it is on the left side under Services.
Even though these services are free now, you will need to activate them in your FeedBurner account. If you have already activated them, you will not be billed from the month of June.
Unfortunately, I cannot use both here cause my blog is hosted at WordPress.com and ashed.com is already taken(sob!).
I wonder if I will be grilled for saying, “Americans are crazy”. But I have no choice but to feel that way (particularly for the last 6 hours). Reason: I have been following the iPhone release for that long. And all I can hear everyone and anyone talk about is the iPhone. There are long queues.
Photos credit: Gabe Rivera of Techmeme
TechCrunch is covering it. GigaOm has a series of posts ranging from comparisons between iPod and iPhone to speculates why Edge is not included in the iPhone. Seth learns a lesson from why Verizon turned down the iPhone. And Zooomr’s Kristopher is playing the host live on Ustream.tv. Robert Scoble is in line. And there are lots more.
In India, waiting in queue for a new gadget (or anything new for that matter) to come out is unheard of. Please correct me if I am wrong. And I find it amazing that people would go to such lengths to do this.
Steve Jobs must be so happy! And GigaOm says there is still 5 hours and 16 minutes left.
Finally got Feedburner activated here. I have found it an easier way to share feeds and add to a wide range of web based rss readers. So if you plan to subscribe to my blog, the link is on top of my right-side panel or click here – http://feeds.feedburner.com/ashed.
Tip: If you are trying to use an offline RSS reader like Mozilla Thunderbird or MS Office Outlook, you just need to use http://feeds.feedburner.com/ashed for Feed URL and the application should automatically detect the posts.
Happy reading!
There are wonderful people on the web and they have wonderful blogs. http://ohgimmeabreak.blogspot.com/ has some classic poetry. (For some reason, she has stopped posting for a while.)
The other one is in sketches. http://inktales.blogspot.com/
Love their creativity!
I heard so much about WordPress that I decided to start my new blog here. My earlier blog is in Blogger. I have been trying to configure this thing to way I would like to make it look. Well, it has not been a very smooth ride. But I agree, I like the WordPress interface, especially the AJAX look and feel.
Hope to get this setup soon and start writing about real problems! ;)