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Nick Bradbury and FeedDemon – The Interview

Posted on October 26, 2009 by Steven Hodson
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feedDemon I know that I have written a lot about FeedDemon but that’s what happens when you are a fan of product – you want to tell everyone just how much you like it. Such is the case with FeedDemon. I have been using the RSS client for a long time and it is probably one of the few programs you would have to take from my cold dead hands before I would give up on using.

In this day of Twitter, Facebook and all other kinds of fancy social media tools some consider RSS and RSS reader clients – especially desktop clients – to be either dead or dying. I tend to think just the opposite – I think RSS and the clients we use will have a long life.

With that in mind I decided to approach Nick Bradbury, the developer behind FeedDemon, and see if he would be willing to answer a few questions about RSS and FeedDemon. As you can see below he was more than willing to do so and for that I thank him very much.

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Categories: Technology | Tags: FeedDemon, Nick Bradbury, RSS

Yo! Pirillo …. Please do something about your RSS feed

Posted on September 9, 2009 by Steven Hodson
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There are only two times when I really regret subscribing to your feed Chris. The first is when you decide that we need to know what a 100+ of your best Twitter followers think about your latest greatest question. I can deal with a top ten but when I have to scroll through three or four screens of “You’re the man”, “You’re so cool Chris – can I have your baby?” type of messages it gets to be a bit much (okay maybe I’m a little overboard on the examples but you get my point).

However those are pretty well far and few between (thank goodness) but for some incomprehensible reason the majority (read 90%+) of your posts end with this kind of crap – which sometimes takes up a full screen in length

pirillo

C’mon bud, yer the Internet Man after all so please do something about this pain in the ass HTML mish-mash because it is really starting to irritate me to the point even your worthwhile posts aren’t worth putting up with this crap for.

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Categories: Uncategorized | Tags: Chris Pirillo, RSS

FeedDemon lets users opt out of ad version with newest release

Posted on September 5, 2009 by Steven Hodson
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feeddemon-licenseI think it is safe to say from the many times I have written about FeedDemon that it is one on my most favorite programs that is among the first to be installed on any fresh build of my machines. In fact when I first started using it goes back to the original beta release but because it was software you needed to pay for I could only use it for short periods of time.

Then early during the version 2 cycle I was lucky enough to have one of the members of the WinExtra Community Forums buy me a license because at that point FeedDemon didn’t support PayPal as a payment option. At some point during the very early builds of version 3 beta releases NewsGator and Nick Bradbury, FeedDemon’s developer, decided to go the free with ad support. While I was happier than hell he was taking this route because I wasn’t sure how I would be able to pay for an upgrade when the time came there were a lot of people whining and crying.

At the same time there were also a large number of people who reached out to Nick asking that there be an option to pay for FeedDemon in order to make the ads go away. In the beginning there was silence on the matter but then in the latest Pre-Release of 3.0 Nick announced the availability of paying to remove those sinful ads.

For me this was a welcome change for two reasons, the first being able to get rid of the ads. The second and in my opinion more importantly it was a way to say thanks to Nick for all his hard work. Ya I realize that he is probably sitting pretty after selling FeedDemon to NewsGator and is getting a nice paycheck to keep working on it but I still liked this option.

My only fear given NewsGator’s past e-commerce options that didn’t allow for payments using PayPal was that I wouldn’t be able to pay. So imagine my pleasant surprise when I found that they where using esellerate to handle payments which meant I could use PayPal – which I did immediately – and gladly.

Oh and as an extra bonus – you only need to buy one license which can be used with as many installed copies of FeedDemon you might have. As Nick said in a forum post on this

I’m a strong believer that once you pay for software, you should be able to use it on any computer you own.  So yes, you can use the serial number on different computers.

I should add, though, that there is a still-to-be-determined limit on the number of computers a single serial number can be used on.  But I’ll be generous with that limit – my goal is to cut back on serial numbers swapped on warez sites, etc., and not to make life difficult for legitimate customers.

Thanks Nick from a very happy customer. Keep up the good work and I’ll keep evangelize FeedDemon from here to the end of the Internet. :)

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Categories: Technology | Tags: FeedDemon, Nick Bradbury, RSS, RSS readers, software

More thoughts on RSS, Twitter, and Social Media

Posted on August 27, 2009 by Steven Hodson
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FeedDemon-RSSreaderSince I wrote yesterday about the silliness surrounding the thought that RSS is something that is dying in our brave new world of the real time Web I thought some more about it as well as reading an excellent post by Kent Newsome. Like myself Kent doesn’t believe that RSS is going anywhere. He does point out the one major failing that RSS has – that being that unless you are some geek type person no-one has the first clue about what RSS is.

In this he is absolutely right. To the average person on the street you mention Facebook and they know instantly what you are talking about. Mention Twitter and fewer people will know what you are talking about but that too is changing. Now bring up RSS and you will see the blank stare telling you that they have no idea what you are talking about.

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Categories: Uncategorized | Tags: Facebook, RSS, RSS readers, Twitter, XML
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