Flame-Bearing Swag Still Available

by admin on July 21st, 2007

We’ve recently moved into Google’s fabulicious Chicago office and brought with us our remaining stock of FeedBurner stickers and buttons. If you are interested in procuring these free delights, please send a self-addressed stamped envelope (or international reply coupon) to our new mailing address. This offer is good until we run out of stickers and/or buttons.

Google
c/o I Want A FeedBurner Sticker!
20 West Kinzie Street
9th floor
Chicago, IL 60610
USA

Here are a few answers to some lingering questions from the original thread:

Can you ship my swag overseas?
We’ll send your sticker to the moon if the postage is correct. But to answer the question, yes. We are able to send stickers overseas and can report several successful exchanges from Italy, Malaysia and Japan. Not a peep yet from Reykjavik, but we’re cautiously optimistic.

Why don’t you save yourselves the hassle and put this stuff on one of those fancy web-based swag fulfillment sites?
What can we say, we’re control freaks when it comes to delivering the goods. Besides, we like receiving your cards and letters and save them for posterity. Offline marketing continueth!

What’s the postage for [insert your country here]?
Unfortunately, we don’t scale well, so you’re going to have to figure this one out on your own. A few helpful commenters suggested stamps.com as a resource for calculating U.S. postage. You can also use this postage rate calculator. The weight of an average FeedBurner sticker package is approximately 0.3 oz, based on a standard-sized envelope. The number of FeedBurner stickers that can fit on the head of a pin is still hotly debated.

Why is this a limited offer?
Supplies are, sadly, limited. Should the public start demanding embroidered beanies or highball cozies en masse, we’ll talk again.

Keep those flames a burnin’!

Originally Syndicated via RSS from Burning Questions - The FeedBurner Weblog

2007 World Series of Poker Winner: Jerry Yang

by admin on July 18th, 2007

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2007 World Series of Poker Winner: Jerry Yang

Jerry Yang finally eliminated Tuan Lam to win the 2007 World Series of Poker’s Main Event, the $8.25 million first prize and his first WSOP bracelet after nearly 14 hours of grueling play.

Yang was a true rookie who had never won in poker circuit play.

An amateur poker player from Temecula, California, is the 2007 World Series of Poker Main Event Champion. Yang holds a Masters Degree in health psychology and works as a psychologist and social worker. He is married with six children.

He was born into a family of Hmong mountain dwellers in Laos, arriving in the US a refugee from the Vietnam War at the age of 13, during which he said his father fought on the side of the United States.

“The communists invaded my country back in the ’70s,” he said. “My family immigrated to Thailand. In fact, we escaped. We got caught by the communists once. It was either be killed or try to escape again. We managed to escape to Thailand and I spent the next four years in a refugee camp.”

Yang started playing poker two years ago. He entered the 2007 World Series of Poker after winning a $225 satellite at the Pechanga Resort and Casino in Temecula.

Yang survived a field of 6,358 in the Main Event to make the final table for his first career money finish in a poker tournament. At the final table Yang went from starting 8th in chips to holding a big chip lead which he never relinquished. Heads-up against Tuan Lam he won the title with 8? 8? against Lam’s A? Q? when he hit a nine-high straight on the river after Lam had caught a queen on the flop. Yang won $8,250,000 for the victory, and he has pledged to donate 10% percent of his winnings to three charities: the Make-A-Wish Foundation, Feed the Children, and the Ronald McDonald House.

Sportsbook.com Online Gambling Odds - Proposition Betting had made Jerry Yang a 9 to 1 underdog to win the 2007 World Series of Poker prior to final table play.

FINAL TABLE PAYOUTS

1. Jerry Yang $8.25 million

2. Tuan Lam $4,840,981

3. Raymond Rahme $3,048,025

4. Alex Kravchenko $1,852,721

5. Jon Kalmar $1,255,069

6. Hevad Khan $956,243

7. Lee Childs $705,229

8. Lee Watkinson $585,699

9. Philip Hilm $525,934

Originally Syndicated via RSS from OCSA Online Casino News Blog

FeedBurner Integration for Blogspot Blogs

by admin on July 12th, 2007

Hot on the heels of last week’s much-ballyhooed free FeedBurner for everyone, we are very excited to announce the immediate availability of one-click redirection for Blogger Blogspot blogs (note our fine use of both alliteration and first syllable congruence).

If you host your content on a Blogger blog with a blogspot.com address (or use Blogger’s “custom domain” feature), you can now redirect your native Blogger feed to your FeedBurner feed (quite easily, might we add). Gone are the muggy, languorous days of wrestling with “autodiscovery” tags in foreboding corners of your Blogger template code or hacking through this tangled discussion thread for a glimpse of configuration clarity. Starting right now, you just log into your Blogger account, select Settings | Site Feed, enter your FeedBurner feed address and click “Save Settings.” Zap! Pow! Kraaakkkk! Now you’ve got the complete picture of how your content is being consumed out here, out there, out everywhere.

Why is redirecting so important?
We’re glad you asked. By redirecting your feed, you can get a true picture of how many subscribers you have. Some of you might even see a few more subscribers magically appear, though results will most certainly vary. Why so? Sometimes, publishers inadvertently fragment their feed audience by offering more than one feed address on the blog itself or within their autodiscovery tags (the method by which feed readers automatically detect the address of your feed for syndication purposes). This results in some subscribers not being counted, and no one wants that in a world where everyone should count for something. By redirecting your feed, you can consolidate any straggler subscribers and greatly improve your ability to effectively measure your audience.

Getting started
Our Blogger QuickStart guide has been updated to include all the necessary info for redirecting your feed. And, since you’ve made it this far in today’s post, now is a good time to let you know we’re still accepting Publisher Buzz submissions, so if you have a good story to tell about your newly integrated Blogger feed or your experience using our feed-related services, submit it to buzz@feedburner.com.

Blog on, good peoples.

Originally Syndicated via RSS from Burning Questions - The FeedBurner Weblog

Internet Poker Gambling Law Challenged in Washington State

by admin on July 8th, 2007

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Internet Poker Gambling Law Challenged in Washington State

The World Series of Poker started on Friday in Las Vegas, also on Friday Washington State Attorney Lee Rousso filed suit in that state in an effort to overturn its 2006 enacted law that makes playing Internet gambling games a Class C felony. In the suit Rousso called the law a direct violation of the U.S. Constitution’s Commerce Clause.

Rousso said the “first legal challenge to the law also should be the last.”

The ban took effect last spring and specifically prohibits Internet based card and other casino games, including Texas Hold’em tournaments, that poker players in the past have used to qualify for entry to the annual multimillion dollar WSOP tournament. Rousso claims that many of those attempting to qualify in the past are from Washington. To try and do so today is committing a felony in that state.

A spokeswoman for the Washington Gambling Commission, Susan Arland said their lawyers have not yet seen the lawsuit and would comment only after they have read it. “We don’t have anything to say just just yet,” said Arland.

Rousso said the state law is “flawed”, arguing that the state measure was passed not to put the state in compliance with the federal wire act. “Instead,” he said, it “protect(s) the in-state gambling industry, including card rooms and casinos.”

“This,” said Rousso, “puts Washington in clear conflict with the Constitution’s Commerce Clause”, which forbids individual states from passing protectionist laws against other state’s business.

Rousso, 49, qualified online for the 2006 WSOP by winning an Internet tournament.

Originally Syndicated via RSS from OCSA Online Casino News Blog

FreeBurner for Everyone

by admin on July 4th, 2007

One of the many benefits that FeedBurner publishers will enjoy now that FeedBurner is part of the Google family is a little something we like to call, “more for free!” Beginning today, two of FeedBurner’s previously for-pay services, TotalStats and MyBrand, will be free. Not in the sense of soaring high above the clouds or recently sprung from the hoosegow, but free like you’ll no longer gladly be billed on Tuesday for a burned feed today. We suspect this will be welcome news to the 450,000+ of you using many of our other free services, but understanding that your feed is your feed, you will need to activate these newly freed-up services in order to partake in their awesomeness.

FeedBurner Stats PRO
PRO is feed analytics taken to the next level. You will now have access to the number of people who have viewed or clicked individual content items in your feed and “Reach,” which estimates the daily number of subscribers who interacted with your feed content. You can turn this on by signing in to your account, navigating to the Analyze tab and heading to the FeedBurner Stats PRO section. Click the “Item Views” checkbox to activate these PRO features.

MyBrand
The MyBrand service (also PRO-level) is located under the “My Account” tab after you’ve signed in. MyBrand lets you maintain consistency between your feed address and your hosted website’s domain, if matchy-matchy is your thing. For example, rather than using feeds.feedburner.com/MyFeedName, your MyBrand-ed feed address can be feeds.myexcellentdomain.net/MyFeedName. To get started with MyBrand, sign into FeedBurner, click the “My Account” link in the upper left-hand corner, and then click “MyBrand”. Nota Bene: You must be comfortable playing around with DNS entries and own the rights to the domain whose DNS entries you’ll be playing around with in order to successfully activate MyBrand.

Previous “PRO” customers will not be charged for the month of June 2007 and beyond. Also, after newly activating either of these features or services, you’ll notice a nifty new “PRO” badge next to your feed(s) on My Feeds page.

Welcome to FreeBurner!

Originally Syndicated via RSS from Burning Questions - The FeedBurner Weblog