Summersault Weblog

If you already know about the world of website content syndication, RSS news feeds, feed reader/aggregator software, and all that jazz, you might wonder why I’m bothering to post Yet Another Article about it. I’ll just go ahead and say that I have purely evangelistic motives: I would love to see content syndication adopted more widely, both by end users, and by website content producers. So if this is old hat, you’re welcome to move along, not much to see here. If you’re wondering what website content syndication is and how it might make your life better, read on!
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You’ve spent the time and money to build a website or you’ve hired someone to build it. You wait a couple of months but you only receive a couple of visitors per day tops. You start to worry that maybe you’ve wasted your time and money on something that isn’t going to yield any results. What do you do?

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It wasn’t all that long ago that Mozilla released the first public offering of Sunbird, a calendering companion to the popular Firefox web browser that I already use and prefer.

I paid no mind to the announcement at the time, as I was happy enough with KOrganizer for this purpose. Recently one bug drove me over the edge to seek alternatives. I was being asked to repeatedly click on an error message which wasn’t helpful enough to allow me to solve the problem, which I couldn’t confirm was a problem anyway. Very frustrating.

In just a few days of use, Sunbird seems so much better– it’s hard to imagine going back anytime soon.

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