Blogging Bytes

Imaginary FriendFeeds for Blogging

jaleel — Sun, 04 May 2008 04:08:03 +0000

FriendFeed has a very interesting feature that bloggers can make use of to generate content for blogging. “An Imaginary Friend”, in their own terms, is

You can keep track of your friends that don’t use FriendFeed by creating “imaginary friends.” For example, if you know your friend’s Flickr username, you can create an imaginary friend with that Flickr account, and you will get notified every time your friend publishes a photo.

This feature helps you add all your blog news sources for blogging and track the content at one place. This will help you in preparing content for your blog posts.

How to access : Go to “Friend Settings” -> “Imaginary” and Create an imaginary friend. Give it a name and add the RSS feeds of your favorite news sources to this new friend. You can subscribe to this imaginary friend feed in any news reader or read it online. This feature is different from other RSS Reader based methods in the sense that all of your favorite news sources can be tracked at one place as a life stream.

From ‘Imaginary Friend’ content stream, you can pick the news of your choice by using FriendFeed search. Go to their Advanced Search page, type a search phrase (”startup acquires”) and choose “shared by one person” [give your imaginary friend name here]

You can further limit this search to blog entries, twitter tweets, etc. Subscribe to the search result page in your RSS reader and let FriendFeed deliver you the news as soon as it is posted anywhere on web.

Facebook Fan Pages of Popular Blogs

jaleel — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 11:09:51 +0000

Facebook Pages and Groups help FB users to become more deeply connected with any Product or service. Bloggers also found this as a right option for promoting their blogs to FB users. Today most of the popular blogs have facebook pages. Here is a comprehensive list for you.
1. Techcrunch
2. Read/Write Web
3. Mashable
4. BoingBoing
5. Go2Web20
6. GigaOM
7. Venturebeat

Be a Fan of your favourite blog today ! If you already have a FB Page, Please comment with your FB Page Link.

Embed FriendFeed Widget in your Blog

jaleel — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 07:11:09 +0000

FriendFeed has a widget feature which can be used for displaying your friendfeed activity inside any blog.Navigating to this widget via the Friendfeed tabs is currently disabled , but it can be accessed via the URL

“http://friendfeed.com/embed?user=yourname” For example : My friendfeed widget is here

replace “yourname” with your user name shortcut in the above URL.

Social Utilities for building better blog traffic

jaleel — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 15:21:39 +0000

Do you get frustrated when visitors to your site don’t convert into subscribers? Blogging success is all about engaged and high volume readership. Inorder to promote any blog as a brand, social utility websites are a must for getting right readers and making them updated regularly to convert first time visitor into a subscriber.
Social utilities like Facebook, StumbleUpon, Digg, Twitter etc. are the main sources of blog traffic and if you can keep those visitors stick around few days by giving valuable content, definitely they will be converted to regular readers. This post features few best articles that can help any blogger to make use of social utility websites.

1. How to Draw StumbleUpon Users Into Your Blog
2. How to Build a ‘Digg Culture’ on your Blog
3. How to Use MySpace to Build a Blogging Audience
4. Using StumbleUpon to Get on the Radar of Other Bloggers
5. 9 Benefits of Twitter for Bloggers
6. Using Digg to get traffic for your blog
7. Getting Blog Traffic From Your Facebook Profile
8. 8 Steps To Successfully Building Blog Traffic Using MyBlogLog
9. What Facebook Can Teach You About Effective Blog Marketing
10. Using Social Networking Sites to Generate Massive Amounts of Traffic

Top 10 Blogs with highest Feed Subscribers

jaleel — Sat, 09 Feb 2008 10:54:10 +0000

Every blog has a feed that helps its readers to keep track of new posts and updates in the blog. It functions as a blog news collector and delivers it to a feed reader. Most popular blogs has large number of subscribers. Here is a startup that rank blogs based on the number of RSS subscribers it has. RatingBurner is great for finding new blogs for your daily feed. It’s got a number of categories to choose from . The blogs are displayed by rank, with additional info listed: number of subscribers, page rank, subscription changes, last post, and number.

Here is a list of Top 10 blogs from RatingBurner based on feed subscriptions.