Comments on: Fairly Useless Feedburner Google Analytics Update

By: Trim Your "Ping List" - Gain Performance!

Trim Your "Ping List" - Gain Performance! — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 10:54:16 +0000

[...] have to admit I’m still quite upset that FeedBurner have removed the option for us to actually choose with services they will notify for us. In my mind it was one of the more [...]

By: Andy Beard

Andy Beard — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 08:24:13 +0000

My interpretation as a non-lawyer is it would depend on who is hosting the file, or in the event of caching/cdn where the image was being pulled from.

With stock images, the intent might be to allow all kinds of normal use, the problem is the legal wording doesn’t allow for typical use scenarios.

By: Chip

Chip — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 07:34:23 +0000

Yeah, I heard that Feedburner is not completely integrated into Google. They still have a lot to do, but no time to do it. Until then, it’s a lot of forced beta-testing. I’m sure they’re getting a lot of feedback on these bugs.

By: Sean

Sean — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 07:29:37 +0000

I know you aren’t a lawyer but I’m curious about something.

If you spread an image that isn’t yours on the internet, you get busted, you have to pay and that’s it. But if one of the users who was watching that image, saved it and then uploaded it somewhere, who has to pay, you the original uploader or the second uploader?

By: Mark

Mark — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 10:30:13 +0000

Not sure why so negative. Sure, it’s not world peace, but it’s a step towards a greater integrated solution.

Also if you want to track RSS subscriptions, you could try putting an event link on your RSS feed. Yes, far from perfect, but it’s better than nothing. It would at the least give you a relative measure if subscriptions are going up, and be able to look at trends in analytics.

By: Andy Beard

Andy Beard — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 03:33:10 +0000

I deleted your link to a site that breaks my comment policy.

iStockPhoto employees should read their own terms of service and license agreements. Ultimately that is the legally binding contract both under which they license photos to users, and which photographers supply photos to them under.

If they are not sticking to their terms, then they are opening themselves to being sued by their photographers who supplied them with photos under that license.

By: Andy Beard

Andy Beard — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 03:29:17 +0000

Hmm that is interesting… Feedburner for years had an option of blocking Yahoo pipes, which I switched on as a test – guess what, Yahoo still pull my feeds for pipes.

By: Kris Roxas

Kris Roxas — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 01:33:52 +0000

I think RSS is useful, but not that useful… I haven’t ever really used it. It’s good and all, and I like how it can bring back readers and stuff but I think I’d prefer an email list still.

-Kris Roxas

By: Ian Brodie

Ian Brodie — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 11:58:47 +0000

One thing that did get fixed at the same time which is worthwhile is integration between Feedburner and Yahoo Pipes.

When Feedburner switched to the google infrastructure it totally botched up all Yahoo Pipes which manipulate RSS feeds from Feedburner. Apparently Yahoo has various rate limits on Pipes which it lifts for certain whitelisted IPs. Google didn’t inform Yahoo in advance of the switch, and after moving to the global infrastructure gave them a list of 500,000 IPs to whitelist.

Eventually things seem to have been sorted.

Ian

By: Nusba

Nusba — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 09:21:49 +0000

Thanks Andy, I asked the iStockphoto Support about this and they told me that they do not limit the page impressions or the views of the imagery.