Feedburner Request: Real-Time Feed Stats

Dear Google,

Recently I've been spending time analyzing nobosh feeds on Feedburner. 

As you know, Feedburner is a fantastic free service that allows publishers to host a cached version of a feed on Feedburner's servers. nobosh utilizes Feedburner as it greatly reduces the load on the nobosh servers. Anyhow, back to the point of the post. After Google purchased Feedburner, one of the first actions was to make all Feedburner services such as Feedburner Stats completely free (Thanks Google). Feedburner Stats is a nice analytics tools that allows publishers to view the following stats on a feed: subscribers, live hits,  items uses, and uncommon uses. 

For some reason, the Feed Stat service has a reporting delay, unlike Google Analytics. As a publisher, I'd love to be able to view feed's stats in real-time. 

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Foot-Eye Coordination

The other day a friend sent me a link to YouTube showing a young boy playing Dance Dance Revolution. After watching to boy's impressive coordination between his foot and eyes I realized I was looking at the beginning of the next generation of coordination. 

You hear a lot of talk about the younger generation having better hand-eye coordination than the older generation likely attributed to being raised with video games. I attribute my hand-eye coordination to playing video games on my Atari, now I would imagine the Nintendo DS and Playstation PSP being the cause. Well, with a new age of interactive video games such as Dance Dance Revolution the next Generation, will likely have a more impressive foot-eye coordination than previous generations. This term, foot-eye coordination likely sounds silly, but watch this video below and you'll come to my realization. 

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The Greatest iGoogle Gadget Ever Made

The majority of you have already cleverly guessed that this post is a shameless plug to promote the new, amazing, ad-free, fast and efficient nobosh iGoogle Gadget. 

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Starbucks Introduces The Vending Machine (Clover)

Starbucks today announced that they were releasing a coffee vending machine called the clover. This is one of several ideas Starbucks Chieft Executive Office Howard Shultz is testing. The Clover also has the ability to grind beans without requiring the staff.

On Schultz's return to Starbucks, the returning CEO claimed he would re-invent the company. He sought out to return fix the broken Starbucks experience. Some of his first moves were to have stores return to grinding coffee beans in-house and other similar tactics to make Starbucks feel like the neighborhood coffee-shop it once was and not a large franchise.

The reason I'm writing this post is that I find Schultz's plan and implmentation in conflict. For example, a recent quote from Shultz said, "The goal is to reinvent brewed coffee in America," Schultz told ABC News "Nightline" anchor Terry Moran during an exclusive interview in the company's first store in Seattle. Well, how does introducing Starbucks coffee vending machines move the Starbucks experience forward? While I haven't experienced Clover, it sounds like a move in the wrong direction. In any case, its great to see Schultz trying customer ideas in an effort to fix the broken coffee chain.

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