FeedBurner makes paid services free
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Blog: Both FeedBurner's Stats PRO and MyBrand are no longer paid services.
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We turned off share.opml.org yesterday, for good, as far as I know. It was a good idea, but we never got it together to make it the powerhouse I wanted it to be.  Now that Google and Bloglines both have discovery mechanisms for feeds that you might like, based on what you and others like, there would only be a future for SYO if it were a thriving and growing community, and it isn't.  Normally, I'd leave a site like that running indefinitely, but this one needed its own server, and I wanted to cut my server expenses now that my S3 bill is going up, serving some very big JPEGs and generally being the back-end for a community that is growing, the people using FlickrFan. If there's a big demand to bring it back, we can -- but that's going to require cash flow to go with it. At this point, I don't think it's a good investment for me. Still diggin!
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By Miguel Helft  Millions of people enjoy free Web-based software programs, but they have a drawback in that they are available to users only when they are online.
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According to this new post on the PHPClasses.org blog today, they're launching some premium services for the users of the site:   It is with great pleasure that I announce that the PHP Classes site finally launched the premium services for PHP developers that use the site. [...] The premium subscriptions are the alternative that I found to make this site provide a pleasant user experience and hopefully provide useful features that can help making the life of PHP developers better.   He goes into detail on what all is involved in the premium subscriptions including:   No advertising Own site search Recorded searches Notable packages PHP Specialist forums   There's also several other services that are listed as "coming soon" to further enhance the site - customizable site design templates, new class wish lists, personalized bookmarks, etc. The cost for all of the premium services comes to $5 USD/month (with $15 USD due at a time because of restrictions on the payment gateway).   Another pair of interesting notes about the future of the site are mentions of revenue sharing for best contributors and the opportunity for free subscriptions.   You can get complete information about these premium services from its page on the PHPClasses.org website.
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Some AOL subscribers are discovering that the company's new free service is only free if you ask for it.
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Check out a new free market data service.
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Freeline range to serve content to Streamium AV kit
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Customers will pay a per-rack fee for server space, monitoring and related services.
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Google Reader leads in feed subscriptions, but Yahoo leads in users clicking back to a publisher's site, a FeedBurner study found.
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LoopFuse, founded by JBoss developers, has announced free sales lead generation software that's also available as a fee-based service.
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Clearswift is giving existing customers a free Internet appliance offering spam, virus, and malware protection.
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Ryan Malesevich is back today with a look at another handy WordPress plugin - Adsense Beautifier.   I'm here to let you guys in on a little secret. From what I hear, if you're using Google Adsense, if you add images next to the ads it helps through with your click through rate. And a better click through rate means higher revenues. Now, I've never done it but I hear it works out pretty well. So how exactly would you go about doing that? You could do it manually, but where is the fun in that?   He talks about what the plugin does - generate the Adsense code for you, without having to go back to Google each time. It supports most of the syles that Google offers currently, but a few are left out. It also helps arrange the ads to make it easier to place them on the page.   Installation is easy, and complete details on the plugin can be found on the project homepage.
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RSS feeds, search alerts and other information monitoring technologies are great, but often end up providing too much of a good thing.  PubSub is a 'matching engine' that offers a promising new way to keep up to date while alleviating information overload.
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There has been a lot of talk  recently about the problem of RSS feeds which include full content on high bandwidth sites such as MSDN blogs.  When RSS is used for a site with both a great amount of users, and with frequent updates, the bandwidth required to deliver realtime events can be problematic.  Its a real problem.  The RSS model requires clients to download the ENTIRE feed if even ONE item has been modified/added.  This means that if you have 55k subscribers, with 15 RSS items in your feed, and you want to publish one more post, all 14 additional posts need to be re-downloaded by the client.  There are a lot of potential solutions. HTTP deltas are one solution but too difficult to imp ...
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Businesses and developers can work with the Google Ads rival on a free or subscription-based level.
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For those who want to get their blogging feet wet quietly, several easy-to-use tools for setting up Web pages, with privacy filters included, are on the market.
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Padraic Brady has put together a very comprehensive post on his blog today about using the Zend_Feed component of the Zend Framework to help with the aggregation of content from other sites (like RSS and Atom feeds).   In this entry I explore Zend_Feed from the perspective of someone aggregating RSS and Atom feeds with a view to building a database of uniquely identified content for later presentation in a "Planet" style application. [...] In fact all we create here is a simple command line script to aggregate content frequently (e.g. just set up cron to run it every hour or so) into a database for later presentation.   He guides you through each step of the way:   Setting Up Database And Models The Aggregator Script Foundation Using Zend_Feed to get common data for RSS/Atom entries Putting It All Together   There's plenty of code (and SQL to insert) in the post and he explains each point well, helping to make the development process smoother. There's even a summary section to toss in a few extra bits of information just in case you missed them along the way.