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In issue#11 we speak with Matt Shobe, co-founder and Chief Design Officer of FeedBurner.

Matt explains why feeds are so important, and why web designers should be using Feedburner.

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He has over ten years of experience tackling design and ease-of-use challenges in web software design. Starting with the central Usability Group at Microsoft in 1993, and continuing with several startups through to the present day, Matt’s mission is to create enticing yet hassle-free user experiences through observant evaluation and design. The results include Yahoo’s July 2000 Top 50 Most Useful Sites award for Spyonit.com, desktop development tools for XML and Java-based alert development for 724 Solutions, and a host of other efforts for large and small companies alike, now including FeedBurner. Matt holds an M.S. in Technical Communication from the University of Washington and a B.A. in English from Purdue University.

INTERVIEW LINKS:
Matt’s Blog
FeedBurner’s Blog, BURNING QUESTIONS
Visit FeedBurner and create your feed. www.feedburner.com

• CSS WORLD AWARDS {CSSMANIA.COM} — Awards given to top blogs and web sites for excellence in CSS. First place: UX Magazine www.uxmag.com | Second Place: Veerle’s Blog http://veerle.duoh.com | Third Place: Vitamin www.thinkvitamin.com
• BROWSER SHOTS {BROWSERSHOTS.ORG} — BrowserShots.org allows web designers to view screenshots of their pages in different browsers, at different screen resolutions and with different plugins. LINK: www.browsershots.org
• THE WAYBACK MACHINE — In 1996, the Internet Archive began archiving the web for a service called the Wayback Machine. They’ve now archived 55 billion web pages. That’s enough web pages that if you were to print them all out using your roommate’s printer while he was at class and tape them end-to-end, you could reach the moon and back 28 trillion times. LINK: Internet ‘96

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