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In my last post, I discussed how to automatically import blog posts to Twitter via Twitterfeed. In this post, we learn another way; that is, to use Feedburner to feeds to Twitter. Of course, before following this tutorial, you must have a Feedburner account and a Twitter Account.

Steps in Importing Feedburner Feeds to Twitter

1.) Login to your Feedburner account.

2.) Select the feed that you want to import to in the My Feeds… page.

3.) In your feed page, click Publicize tab and then click the Socialize link.

4.) In the Socialize page, click Add a Twitter account button.  This will take you to a Twitter page where you will be asked to log in. Log in to your Twitter page.

5.) After logging in, go back to Feedburner page. You should see your Twitter account as link.  To finish,  click the Activate button at the bottom of the page.

After step 5, each time a feed is posted, it will be automatically imported to your Twitter account.

This is the third post in the Feedburner Series. In the previous post, we have learned how to create a Feedburner RSS Chicklet. In this post, we are going to add a Feedcount button to your blog.

The Feedcount button shows how many readers have subscribed to your Feedburner RSS feed. Read the rest of this entry →

In our previous post, we talked about basics of RSS. In this post, we are going to learn how to set up a Feedburner feed.

Feedburner is an excellent web feed tool that provides custom RSS feeds and management tools to bloggers, podcasters, and other web-based content publishers. Feedburner is one of Google’s applications, so you need a Google account to access it.

Setting up a Feedburner RSS Feed

1.) Log in to your Google Account.

2.) Go to feedburner.google.com to go to the page shown in the first figure.

3.) Copy and paste the RSS feed address of your blog to the RSS feed box as shown in the red box above (click image to enlarge) and then click the Next button.  This will take you to the window shown in the figure below. Read the rest of this entry →

Introduction

When you are reading a book, you use a bookmark to mark a page where you stopped or a page which is important to you. This also happens on the web. You probably have a list of the URLs of websites you like. Some of you are probably familiar with the bookmark feature of your browsers: the star in Google Chrome’s address bar, the Favorite>Add to Favorites in InternetExplorer, and CLTR+D in Firefox.

Browser bookmarking is good way to mark your favorite sites, but the problem is that browsers are not capable of informing you when site you bookmarked new articles or updates.  You have to visit the website to check for new articles.

This is where RSS comes in.  It’s like a browser saying ‘Hey, Blogineering has a new post.’ This is similar to email subscriptions: users are informed whenever a site is updated.  Some RSS feed management providers such as Feedburner offer RSS email subscriptions as well. Read the rest of this entry →