No, you didn’t lose all your RSS subscribers over night! Recently, there’s been some instability with FeedBurner (bought by Google) and their Awareness API. This is the API we use to grab things like subscriber counts. From the tech team, now inside Google: Oopsie It seems that they’re doing some work on it and will [...]
Archive | May, 2010
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Upgrading our infrastructure!
Yesterday we upgraded our servers to handle our growing user base and the sheer volume of social media sites we are now tracking. Everything went smoothly with about 5 minutes of total down time (HOORAY!) – with one exception: We're still ironing out an issue with Twitter so we may miss today's sampling for Twitter [...]
SWIX takes a closer look at the NBA Finals
The undying passion, lust and desire that SWIX software developer Mike Grouchy has for Kobe Bryant surprises and delights me everyday. He even claims he could possibly be more in love with Kobe than the now famous fan who became a YouTube sensation based solely on his similar undeniable infatuation for Kobe Bryant. As Mike [...]
And the winner is…
…this awesome gentleman Lenny Gomez! Thanks again to everyone who took some time to participate in our pricing survey AND letting us know if you were a pie lover or not. The proud new owner of the iPod touch, Lenny Gomez, is the president of Publicity Relationships Inc. an interactive marketing firm based in Lake [...]
Creating a SWIX Widget on your Mac Dashboard
The Mac OSX Dashboard is a very cool part of the Mac OS. Today I created a SWIX widget out of a tracking pod, just to see how it would look. Looks great! Here's a pod, converted to a dashboard widget: and here's a report graph, converted to a widget: For those of [...]
Results from the SWIX Pricing Survey
A few weeks ago we got the idea to survey our Beta users about pricing. We wanted to hear from users what price range and model we should be considering. The amount and quality of the feedback we received was really great. This has been a tough question to answer and we've had lots [...]