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We haven’t quite gotten Carol blogging yet, but she’s already managed to get herself famous on YouTube! At the recent Gnomedex conference in Seattle, she spun a fine, mobile-centric yarn and won herself a shiny, new toy!
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We’re big fans of JQuery at AideRSS - it makes Javascript a fun language to work with (after years of painful experiences)! A great example of which is Alf Eaton’s recent blog post about creating a custom AideRSS Top Posts widget with JQuery. Instead of using our default widget, Alf shows how to interface with our top posts API and create a custom styled list of stories.
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If we had fewer users it would be a lot easier to innovate! I mean puleeze - get out of our way already. Can’t you see we’re trying to build something really cool…for our…users. Hmm.
The paradox of product development: balancing the efforts maintaining and incrementally enhancing the released stuff while continuing to evolve and innovate in a dynamic and evolving market. Its no easy task to be sure and takes equal amounts of judgment and science.
Our dev team recently completed a sprint where we knocked off a serious pile of issues for released code. During the same sprint we added significant functionality for our upcoming release. It was a great example of striking this balance - and a display of some serious productivity.
Special thanks to Andrew and Melanie for keeping us on the the line:
I keep a close watch on these bugs of mine
I keep my backlog open all the time
I keep the yellow stickies for the code that grinds
Because you whine, we walk the line
[Note from Melle: The song stylings expressed in the preceding lyrical snippet do not reflect the opinions of AideRSS, Inc. towards its community, and are merely a function of maintaining rhyming pattern. Besides, the devs here whine way more than anybody else.] :)
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Darren Rowse over at ProBlogger has published an excellent video post explaining:
Using AideRSS to Help Identify Hot Topics to Cover On Your Blog
This is a function of our service I’ve talked to a lot of people about, so I’m loving that there’s a great real world example out there, and an explanation in video format. (Some people grok things better in text, some in audio, some in video.)
How does AideRSS help you be a better publisher? And how can we help you become even more of a rock star? Let us know!
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Our third interview with Joseph Thornley is up, starring… me!
Melanie Baker talks about the role of Community Manager at AideRSS
There are lots of things that occurred to me that I should have said, upon watching the video. I guess it’s an opportunity to point a camera at my own head some time, or just blog about them. :)
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As we’ve commented on before, a fundamental goal and challenge for our company is how to drive RSS adoption by the mainstream internet citizenry. By mainstream I’m referring to those who may not even consciously use RSS yet. (Among other non-niche, non-early adopter markers.)
It may seem alien to those of us out here on the geek edge, but there are a lot more of those folks than there are of us. And on the internet, not only does no one know you’re a dog, they also don’t know if your eyeballs and dollars are geek-driven or not (nor should it matter, to a large degree).
As I talked about in my 47hats guest post, it can be challenging to remember that those building the online apps and products are typically very different from many of those using (or potentially using) them. As I and the other attendees at a usability conference were once informed at the outset: ”We’re tainted”. (As far as remembering and understanding what user experience is like for newcomers).
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I have a guest post up at 47hats.com!
Striking a balance of user needs in technology development.
Read! Comment! Argue with me! I already know what everyone around here thinks, so I yearn for fresh, crisp new opinions and ideas.
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Ranking and Relevance:The Future of RSS Technology
Man vs. Machine: Applying Social Engagement to RSS
To vote, you do have to create an account/login, but it’s really easy! Then once you’re logged in, just click the fifth star beside the Your vote heading so all the stars turn yellow. You don’t actually have to be planning to attend the conference to vote.
And, y’know, if your co-workers, friends, family, and pets would like to vote for us, that would be good, too. :)
We would, of course, be most grateful for your support. Plus, if you’re planning to attend the conference, give us a holler so we can say hi! (And if you know where the tastiest BBQ is, I’ll totally trade t-shirts for recommendations of deliciousness…)
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Continuing with our triptych of interviews with Joseph Thornley of ProPR and Thornley Fallis.
In the first part, Ilya talks a bit more about there AideRSS came from. The second part is Carol’s interview, where she talks about what drew her to join the company, the value our technology brings to the information management space, and the future and goals of AideRSS.
From Founders’ Dream to Professional Leadership: AideRSS’ Startup Journey
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We’ve added another Dan! (Not that there was anything wrong with the first one; he just does different stuff.)
Please welcome Dan Sinclair to the AideRSS team!
You may remember Dan from such blog posts as Ruby PostRank API by Dan Sinclair. (Apparently you’re allowed to ask devs to make you stuff before you hire them. Cool!) We liked the cut of his jib, and so he got my desk. And my monitor. Hmph.
Dan comes down solidly on the ninja side of the ninjas vs. pirates issue, but we’re willing to give him the benefit of the doubt. (Now zombies, that’s another story all together…) Plus he looks good in hats, and really, who doesn’t love a man with a flair for the haberdashery? (Or is it hattery? Whatever…)
Dan comes to us from the wide world of security, so one expects he’ll be ganging up on us with our co-op to demand we do things the right way. And probably breaking stuff. A lot. He’s also been travelling a fair bit, so we will happily make him feel grounded and secure by duct taping him to his chair and making him pound out APIs and such. The things we do for you people…
Fingers crossed that we will soon be welcoming Dan and his wife to KW, but in the mean time let us cross our fingers for speedy and successful house hunting.
Welcome aboard!
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