Putting Flickr photos in your blog’s feed

June 28, 2008

I took a lot of photos of eBay Live (and even more of Chicago), and now of course I have the perennial problem of just what to do with those holiday pics. Sticking them in Flickr and forgetting about them is one option; publishing great long blog post galleries so that everyone has to suffer looking through them seems to be the alternative. ;-)

Feedburner has come to my rescue. They have a new trick called Photo Splicer, which allows me to pull in Flickr photographs as entries in my main blog RSS feed. It’s a neat way to bring together a personal blog with your photographs, or of course to show more product photos to subscribers to your business blog. You’ll find Photo Splicer under the Optimise tag.

There’s also Link Splicer which allows you to pull in bookmarks from del.icio.us, Furl, Bloglines, Digg and ma.gnolia (sadly the two I actually use, StumbleUpon and Google Reader’s shared items, are not available at the moment). Links can be spliced either individually as you bookmark them, or as a once-a-day summary.

For those wondering exactly what Feedburner is, it’s a way to distribute the RSS feed from your blog which provides all sorts of information for stats-obsessives (like me) about how your feed is being read, and all sorts of useful tricks for your subscribers, like being able to subscribe via email. If you have a blog, give it a go.

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Going Live

June 14, 2008

This post was written in June 2008; specific information contained within it may be out of date.

ebay liveSo like the rest of the eBay-blogosphere, today I’m writing a post about how I’m leaving for eBay Live in rather less than 24 hours. I’m getting a little concerned at the number of people who’ve said things like “I’ll miss you”: we’re only going to Chicago, not up the real Big River, and besides, the whole point of Chris’ and my going is so that we can blog it. The blogging will not stop - though the time difference might make it seem a little odd.

If TameBay isn’t enough for you to stay in touch, here are some other ways to keep up to date with what’s happening at Live:

  • point your RSS readers at the eBay Live 2008 Yahoo Pipe I just made, aggregating lots of feeds from bloggers who will be there, including eBay’s official coverage
  • watch the Flickr group which will have photos from Live (assuming I defy tradition and remember to take my camera lead)
  • lovely Monique reminds us that Friday’s keynote and Saturday’s town hall will both be webcast

It’ll be almost like you’re there!

PS If anyone knows about the Twitter API and has ten minutes for me sometime today, I will shower you with gratitude and eBay swag/French chocolate…

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