Tom Carroll outlines the features a feed management service must have for him to use it. I don’t know of a feed management service that comes close to what he wants. Feedburner certainly doesn’t and that is the best one out there.
The migration to the service must be seamless for my current subscribers (Yeah I know all 3).
Currently his feed is on http://www.tomcarroll.org/?feed=rss. So any feed manager will have to retain that URL which means he will have to install something on his hosting box. A WordPress plugin might work. This also means Feedburner is not suitable.
The service should provide a suite of metrics that allow me better understand who, how often, when, how long, how many times
Feedburner does this and does it quite well. How does this gel with another requirement of Tom’s though?
Integration with analytical packages say like Google analytics
Should Google Analytics handle all metrics or just match feed usage to entry pages?
In the case that I choose to leave your service, I must be able to migrate my feeds transparently and also be able to migrate my usage data.
The first bit shouldn’t be hard but the second bit, usage data, I haven’t seen anything close to a solution yet. Do any analytics packages import and export on common formats?
Configurable support for social network services like Digg or del.icio.us
As simple as “Add to Digg/del.icio.us” or something a bit more involved?
Integration to see where my feed is bookmarked and subscribed (share.opml.org, del.icio.us, Google reader ect…)
Definitley something all the aggregators need to standardise on and emit.
Support for the widest set of RSS extensions
Absolutely need this.
The rest of his list is pretty much already here:
I would like support for one click subscription to the various news readers.
The service must have tight wordpress integration.
feeds must be human readable
I would like it to support leave comment from the feed.
A strong record of availability, reliability and scalability (I might hit 4 subscribers someday)
Should support multiple feeds per site, no limit.
WordPress Feedburner plugin
Friday, August 4th, 2006I have been interested in Feedburner since it launched but that you have to give up control of your feed’s URL has always kept me from using it. Sure, you could put PHP scripts on your hosting that did some redirecting but it was all a bit of a hassle.
Much to my delight though there is a WordPress plugin that makes all of this painless. Thanks to Argolon for commenting about it in the previous post.
So now my journal’s feed retains its address but has all the FeedBurner features I’ve been wanting.
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