PKB

l learned today that my daughter Isa’s school has a blog. Which was a great excuse to try out the new feed preview feature in Firefox 2 to subscribe - three clicks and I was done.

1. Click on the orange RSS icon in the location bar, which indicates a feed is available

2. Choose how I want to subscribe to the feed

3. Confirm subscription in Bloglines

(It’s fewer steps if you decide to set a preference to always use one service.)

It’s hard to be objective about something you’ve been working on, particularly when you’ve been close to it for a long while*, but Firefox 2 is a freaking great piece of software. Makes my job a whole lot easier when the product I’m marketing keeps on surprising me, in good ways.

*I really enjoyed this 37signals blog post on design fatigue. And yes, I’m probably going to hell for using an anecdote about my kid to pimp a Firefox 2 feature.