Archive for March, 2007

Long Weekend of Cron Job on RSS Feeds

It’s been a long weekend modifying update feed php scripts as well as removal scripts on the KickRSS server. Last two weeks while traffic was going up I noticed speed and performance was going down. By Friday night mySQL was crashing from far too many processes running.
Turns out our feed updates (some starting every five [...]

KickRSS, Monday, March 26th, 2007, No Comments »

2000 a day and counting

I was planning to post this last week but had not gotten around to it. I mentioned I would post when we hit 2000 visitors per day and by golly we hit it on 12 Mar 2007. Total count for that day was 2281 with 16 Mar 2007 being the second highest of the week [...]

KickRSS, Thursday, March 22nd, 2007, No Comments »

DigRSS & RSSware get snatched up

I have been watching some RSS related domains and was hoping to pick up a great domain name (like KickRSS) to create some new RSS services.
I noticed last week that DigRSS.com and RSSware.com (as well as RSSrealtor.com and RSSclient.com) were coming up for expiration on a domain deletion list and I thought about picking those [...]

RSS News, Wednesday, March 14th, 2007, No Comments »

Screencasts Coming to KickRSS

I am looking for some help from the online community so I can begin posting screen casts (related to creating and editing RSS feeds) to this blog. I am not sure on all the particulars to get this to work best so I thought I’d just put my questions out here in the open in [...]

Screencast, Friday, March 9th, 2007, No Comments »

Most popular searches in RSS today

I was checking our search logs on KickRSS.com and thought I’d share some of the top things I found people are searching for (all related to RSS).
I copied 26 of the most popular RSS related phrases that I found in our AWStats log file and I’ll go down the list from most popular phrases to [...]

KickRSS, Tuesday, March 6th, 2007, No Comments »

RSS mash ups and mixing your RSS feeds

I was having breakfast with a group of friends yesterday when the topic of “mashing” came up. They were not talking mashed potatoes, they were talking about new tools available to mash and mix content into new forms.
Mashing is nothing new. In the 1990s many sites mixed content using SSI calls ala Perl/CGI and JavaScript. [...]

RSS News, Monday, March 5th, 2007, 1 Comment »