Author Archives: Bish

Feedburner Pro Made Free

By Bish | Published: 04/07/2007 – 12:03 | Posted in News, Software, Web | Comments (0)

Feedburner today announced the extra features that were previously paid for have been made available free of charge. Both Pro stats and the MyBrand feature have been made available to all since the Google acquisition. Simply log into your account and activate these features to make use of them.
Well done Google. I just need you to buy my local supermarket, petrol station and football club now!

Alan Johnston Freed

By Bish | Published: 04/07/2007 – 11:48 | Posted in News, Personal, Quick | Comments (0)

Fantastic news today that Alan Johnston, the BBC reporter, has been freed by his kidnappers in the Gaza Strip. 114 days in captivity is a long time!

Its amazing he looks so healthy, great news for him and his family. More details on the BBC website.

$100 Million Feedburner Acquisition (Google – Again!)

By Bish | Published: 25/05/2007 – 23:42 | Posted in News, Opinion, Personal, Software, Web, Web2.0 | Comments (1)

FeedburnerWell according to a number of sources and specifically Techcrunch it seems Google has acquired the simply excellent Feedburner.

As a quick introduction for those that aren’t aware of it, Feedburner is the stats management package for your RSS feeds, monitoring a great depth of information from subscriber numbers to click through’s to your pages. It re-writes your RSS feed and allows you to add features and customisations adding greater value to both your readers and you as the site marketer or owner.

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Downtime and Errors

By Bish | Published: 25/05/2007 – 22:31 | Posted in Opinion, Personal, Quick, Wordpress | Comments (4)

Downtime

All my sites went down today for about 60mins around 5pm (GMT) with my host denying all knowledge. Not the end of the world but a reasonable explanation would have been appreciated. Especially as this is the 7th day this month there has been some length of downtime! I have been putting it off for ages but a few more issues and poor responses from my host and I might end up making the move. Where do you recommend?

Downtime for BenBishop.me.uk 25th May 2007

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Google Analytics ‘2.0′ – Re-design

By Bish | Published: 09/05/2007 – 23:22 | Posted in Design, News, Software, Technology, Web | Comments (0)

Jeffrey Veen over at the Google blog today announced a massive redesign of the already comprehensive Google Analytics stats package. Based on the original website statistics from Urchin software, Google’s feature set was comparable to many other commercial competitors but no-one could ever label Analytics of being the most user friendly web stats app out there. For instance checking out your search keywords of visitors to your site required a huge amount of clicks (if you could find the option on the first place).

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