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Entries from March 2007

Contest Winner: FeedBurner Total Stats Pro Account

March 19th, 2007 · 4 Comments

Our contest to give away a FeedBurner Total Stats Pro account turned out to be a blast. We had a lot of great entries, and some really weird ones. Like “get help” weird. No, really.
Anyway, my personal favorite and contest runner-up from the “intro to a pulp novel” category [...]

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Tags: Contest · Feeds · News

Case Study: Powering the Power150

March 19th, 2007 · 4 Comments

We’ve been working with Todd Andrlik to help him automate his ranked list of top marketing blogs called the Power150. As he Todd Andrlik to help him automate his ranked list of top marketing blogs called the rolls out the new product, we thought a small case study of the project was in [...]

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Tags: Feeds · How-To

Twitter Hacks: Undocumented RSS and JSON features

March 17th, 2007 · 3 Comments

Mark Lozano (also of TechBrew) and I have been working on a Twitter-related experiment that we’ll reveal sooner or later.
In the meantime, I found a couple of undocumented (or at least really obscure) Twitter features that may prove useful to developers:
1) RSS feeds can also be JSON
At the bottom of a Twitter profile page is [...]

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Tags: How-To