Website Update 8.12.2009

I have been working extensively lately on web apps... Not my own website exactly, but on document apps, Twitter apps, Blog apps, and on systems that can connect them all together.

One cool app I found was Twitterfeed. It connects to your blog, periodically checks for updates, and if it finds a new post, it will generate a small URL as a link to the post and post a short message with the URL to your Twitter account. It is very customizable as to how often it checks, customizable messages, and small URL types - like tinyurl or bit.ly.

Secondly, I have desided to break up my current blog into three blogs - a personal blog, a technical blog, and a blog for my website updates.

During the creation and customization of these blogs, I came across FeedBurner. I have heard of it of course but had no idea what it does. I still don't I guess; I haven't gotten to really do much with it but just from the tad I have experienced so far, it looks very data and statistic driven. It can make your blog totally compatible with different formats like RSS, XML, Atom and others, and it can track links users click on in your blog, generate automatic newsletters from your posts...

And I believe that is just the tip of the iceberg.

Not that I need really any of that functionality, but it is interesting to me; I love learning how those types of things work.

Then I have also gotten involved with Google Apps. I love everything Google has made so far, so I wanted to try this out on my domain as well. I have had a few issues so far, which I have blogged about in my new tech blog, but nothing too bad yet...

So there it is. I've been working on a lot of web stuff, just not my website. But that should change soon...

And this post turned out a lot longer and technical than I had planned; maybe I should post it in my Tech blog...