The only purpose at this point in keeping FeedBurner around is portability and compatibility of data. Having a system that can read all the various flavors and manglings of RSS and Atom out there in the world and then serve it back up in an appropriate manner almost flawlessly is still a rare thing. I can’t think of another competitor to FeedBurner, in fact, that does this.
Mashable on Feedburner
14 August 2008
10 July 2008
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again - the Internet has been built on two cornerstones: sex and hate. You’ll have griefers anywhere there’s a group of people, and if there’s anywhere that creativity’s encouraged, folks will use that creativity to come up with new ways to talk about, view, or engage in virtual sex.
Mashable on Sex
29 June 2008
Features, I’ve recently come to realize, can be obstacles. Problems. The more powerful an application is, the more specialized it is, and thus with increased power its intended audience shrinks, and ironically, it becomes more, not less, vulnerable to competition.
Mashable on Features
25 June 2008
Most folks understand the implications of providing their blog posts with full text (you’re very likely going to get your content shared around and read outside the confines of your website). It’s going to get re-purposed and re-used in a number of ways you never intended or even imagined. Some of it will be for good, and some of it will be for evil. The solution is simple. Roll with the punches.
Mashable on RSS
14 May 2008
The real problem with print as a medium, when compared to the internet, is not (only) that it’s slower. The problem is that it’s not linked to anything. If you have to choose between reading, for example, a motherboard review in a printed mag and on a website, very soon you’ll discover that the printed review lacks so much context that any comparison is unfair. The printed magazine, content-wise, is just like a web page taken offline: nothing more, nothing less. Is there any hope for the print, then?
Mashable on Print
9 April 2008
For me, Twitter has of late become a faster and easier and more accessible way to let the news “come to me.” Churning through endless RSS feeds – spools of new product announcements from the likes of TechCrunch and Mashable, for instance – can at times be a chore, leeching away the excitement of discovery that leads me (and you) to hit the interwebs in the first place seeking out new treasure chests in the first place.
Online Media Cultist on Twitter
5 April 2008
I think - and here I speak only as an individual observer with the privilege of first-hand access to a publication like Mashable - that it’d be quite healthy if the [blogging] industry were to, for lack of a better word, chill.
Mashable on Blogging
14 February 2008
When I was deep in the dark, dark well of WoW addiction, I wasn’t very mobile. In fact, I wasn’t leaving the house much at all, except that one time when there was a fire, and even then I stayed to see if that enhancement shaman (it’s shaman loot, warriors) chest mail piece is gonna drop in Zul’ Gurub.
Mashable on Mobile WoW
Google has a traditionally uglyish, but bearable [Valentine's Day] logo this time. If you look closely, you’ll see that Google’s obviously aiming for that silver surfer demographics this year.
Mashable on Google Logo
10 February 2008
Do you think the competitors sit around their offices chanting, “We think we can, we think we can….” to the idea of catching up to YouTube?
Sean P. Aune (Mashable) on Youtube