feeds VS emails
Last week I "burnt" some our feeds on feedburner.com
Great service that can give you some nice stats about your feeds for free. In two days we had about 40 subscribers for one of most interesting RSS - Customer Reviews
They have thing that instantly captured my attention - almost everything is a feed. For example, they don't send you emails about strange site behavior - you should subscribe to your FeedMedic RSS.
What I thought about was a way of displaying system logs. When you have big system with a lot of users, many actions are being happened: user registered, someone put money on his account, someone requested some service, etc. All these actions are logged of course - directly like payments or indirectly like user signup.
Feed of these events sometimes can be more useful that statistics.
And error feeds also have their advantages - you don't need to rely on mail server, you don't need to maintain list of developers to send them errors. Just one (or several if you need) feed, maybe protected with password for security. Opera Mini supports feeds so anyone with cellphone can read it.
The bad thing is a limit of items in RSS. So if your system is overwhelmed by errors only latest events will be accessible. But in such case you'll get notified anyway =)
Great service that can give you some nice stats about your feeds for free. In two days we had about 40 subscribers for one of most interesting RSS - Customer Reviews
They have thing that instantly captured my attention - almost everything is a feed. For example, they don't send you emails about strange site behavior - you should subscribe to your FeedMedic RSS.
What I thought about was a way of displaying system logs. When you have big system with a lot of users, many actions are being happened: user registered, someone put money on his account, someone requested some service, etc. All these actions are logged of course - directly like payments or indirectly like user signup.
Feed of these events sometimes can be more useful that statistics.
And error feeds also have their advantages - you don't need to rely on mail server, you don't need to maintain list of developers to send them errors. Just one (or several if you need) feed, maybe protected with password for security. Opera Mini supports feeds so anyone with cellphone can read it.
The bad thing is a limit of items in RSS. So if your system is overwhelmed by errors only latest events will be accessible. But in such case you'll get notified anyway =)
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