FeedBlitz, a popular Blog to Email service has changed its Terms of Service which come into effect on August 19, 2007.
The two main changes to the terms of service are:

Lists with an active circulation of 5,000 or more must be on a FeedBlitz premium service (Pro, Turbo or Newsletter Edition).
Ads will be inserted into subscriber [...]

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Twitter has became a big hit these days. People twitter a lot in a day. Now some Twitter fan people came up with TwitThis, a wonderful service which allows Twitter users to share Feedburner processed feeds. It helps adding a FeedFlare in the feeds which gives the option to a Twitter user to share that [...]

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Ajay on April 7th, 2007

IndiaNewsBox is a new Indian startup that aims at being a news aggregator to display news on a single page while preserving the segregation in news source.
Currently they offer news from the following categories:

National Headlines
International Headlines
Business
Sports -> Cricket
Technology News
Showbiz
Regional News -> Hindi
Regional News -> Kannada
Market News
Indian [...]

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Ajay on March 17th, 2007

Feeds have changed the way we read information on the web today. I am subscribed to approximately 200 feeds, most of which I “read” every single day.
To read feeds, you usually need a feed reader. But what if you want to share the feeds you read with the world. What if you want to display [...]

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Ajay on February 17th, 2007

Finally the pleas of thousands of publishers has been heard. Google Reader is now reporting feed subscribers.
Feedburner also reported the same. As a result of this my feed count out here at Techtites nearly doubled and crossed the 100 mark as of now.

My personal blog feed count has gone up by nearly 40% to 300 [...]

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Ajay on January 18th, 2007

Feedburner’s recent Headline Animator Update shows that they place good importance in this as a marketing tool for your blog. I don’t see why not.
The headline animator is a convenient and easy way to advertise your site.
The headline animator is a simple GIF image that rotates the latest posts from your RSS feed. This means [...]

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Ajay on January 9th, 2007

If you have upgraded your site to WordPress 2.0.6 and are using Feedburner to serve your feeds, then this post is for you.
Neosmart found a problem with the way WordPress served feeds to Feedburner. As a result you ended up receiving an error:
Your server disconnected us before sending the full source feed content. If your [...]

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Ajay on January 6th, 2007

A few days ago, Google Reader saw a brand new feature, Reader Trends.
Everton who seems to be a regular Google Reader user has “read” a great number of feeds.
As for me, the screenshot below says it all:

I’ve never been very comfortable with Google Reader and always preferred Netvibes over this.
However, last month I picked up [...]

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Ajay on December 24th, 2006

In a startling revelation, Microsoft had filed for two patents covering technology used to organize and read syndicated Web feeds, such as those delivered via the widely used Really Simple Syndication, or RSS, family of formats reports C|Net.
This follows Google’s attempt to patent ads in feeds.
Filed on June 21, 2005, the first covers “finding and [...]

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Ajay on December 21st, 2006

If you’ve had the boring “add to del.icio.us” buttons so far, then it is time to get a change.
del.icio.us today released a new social bookmarking button titled Tagometer.
Using a JSON data feed, the Tagometer displays the number of users bookmarking the page and the top three tags used.
It is available in two varieties, a [...]

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