Today Feedburner unveiled a new feature called Feedflare. It will add in various useful tidbits to your feedburner feed. From within the feed the reader will have the option to email the author, or email the post to someone else. It will also use Technorati to show how many sites are linking to a post. In addition there is del.icio.us integration which shows tags for the post, and the ability to post to del.icio.us. Finally, if you’re a WordPress user, it will show how many comments have been left.
I’ve enabled Feedflare on the feed to this site to test it. At first glance I’m pretty enthused. It seems to be a great use of functionality, and it sounds like more functions are on the way.
In other Feedburner news, you may have noticed a spike today in your subscriptions (assuming you’re using Feedburner). It appears that Yahoo is now reporting the number of MyYahoo subscribers. Previously, Yahoo wasn’t reporting how many people were subscribing, so it showed up as one reader. The bad news is that your site didn’t become wildly popular overnight. The good news is that now you have a better handle on the size of your subscriber base.
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