Feedburner, the privately held and headquartered company in downtown Chicago, Illinois, last Thursday (09/22/05) started offering a new feature to its already extensive line of feed publicity tools with the addition of PingShot. PingShot is a service that automatically pings services for you every time you update your Feedburner RSS feed. They offer about a dozen choices to ping (i.e. Technorati, MyYahoo and PubSub just to name a few). This should help in enabling these services to have the most up to date Feedburner feed.
I think this will be extremely helpful in attacking a lag problem I have experienced with MyYahoo and a couple other RSS feed aggregators. I noticed my feeds would not update as soon as I updated Somewhat Frank blog and Feedburner RSS feed. I am hoping PingShot will remedy the problem. They are also asking users to submit additional services to extend PingShot's ping service offerings; I would recommend Pingoat by Kailash Nadh.
To find our more about this new feed publicity feature check out this post on Burning Questions the Feedburner blog. Also check out these blog posts on Qumana, Nuhuati, iThink's blog, and Ping-o-Matic's blog to see what others in the blogosphere are saying about the new Feedburner PingShot feature.
