Meevy

Does Atom, XML, RSS, Aggregators, News Readers etc, confusing you? It is also confusing for the readers of your blog too. It is quite simple to use email based subscription as the latest news is delivered to people’s inbox itself. It’s simple and convenient. The readers have a choice. They can read the news only if they like it, not otherwise.

Feedblitz offers a fantastic piece of service such that you can either use your feedburner feed or your default atom feed. You input your feed URL or blog URL, get your password verified. Then you may put a subscribe box in your blog like the one, I have put up in the sidebar.

That is all you have to do. Readers can subscribe by entering their email id and verifying their passwords. I would personally use this type of subscription rather than an RSS or Atom reader as news arrives at your inbox itself.

There is also a nice “Bloglet and FeedBlitz Comparison chart” which says Bloglet is incompatible with feedburner feeds. I don’t know whether it is true or not. But the problem with Bloglet is that it requires the author’s blogger username and password. Hence, many people avoid it. Or else Bloglet would be a wonderful tool.

Anyway, Feedblitz does not require your blogger username or password and it is safe to use. New posts are sent to the subscriber’s email address with the title of the posts as the subject line. Some of the features of Feedblitz include

# Rss, xml, atom support
# Support for Google AdSense for Feeds,
# Bloglet import capability,
# Autodiscovery,
# Does NOT post draft entries and
# Video blog and podcast compatible

Try it for yourself and don’t forget to put a Feedblitz subscription form for your own blog.

Link of the day: “Microsoft hasn’t really improved on their browser for five years” - CEO, Opera software. ( Cnet Interview )