Archive for February, 2006

Buying a car using RSS

Monday, February 27th, 2006

Craigslist offers RSS feeds on their searches.  So if you are in the market for a new car, and want to put RSS to work for you, just make a search and subscribe to the feed link provided in the bottom right corner.

For example:

Now watch for the ads to roll in.

Craigslist even stays true to their minimalist style by using simple text with an orange background rather than the RSS icon!

I noticed that my local Buy and Sell is also doing this but their search interface isn’t as friendly, plus I don’t want to limit myself to just Vancouver.

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Blogging Benefits from Guy Kawasaki

Wednesday, February 1st, 2006

Guy Kawasaki posted some stats on his 1 month blogging anniversary.  There are some interesting site stats and some potentially dangerous points since he posted his AdSense earnings which is apparently a no-no.  But these two points stick out the most for me:

8. Traffic to my web site, www.guykawasaki.com, increased from about 400 page views/day to 800-1,200 page views/day.

9. My Amazon sales rank for The Art of the Start (go ahead, I dare you to click on this link) hovered between #1,500 and #2,000 prior to the start of my blog. Currently, the sales rank hovers between #500 and #750.

Another interesting tidbit is that he uses SnipURL to track how many people click on the links.  I always thought that these services were only good for getting past mail readers breaking up lines, but I may have to start thinking about how else they can be used.

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