Embeddable software rocks

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Totally off-topic, I know, but I was expecting some kind of description of a virtual quarry or code pebbles or something.

More on topic, this seems to suffer from the same lack of control that most "cloud" software does. When they pull your link because your website is too popular (or not popular enough), what happens then?

Not really a complaint, I guess, more of a question -- is this something that comes up as an issue practically, or in most cases is it not an issue as a site grows?

Well, first thing is making sure your relationship is mutually beneficial. If you're paying money to woofoo there is no reason for them to pull the plug, not any more than your hosting company pulling the plug on you, or even your cell phone company. There are many things in live we don't own, and it's usually not a disaster.

The other thing of course if they pull a plug on you, you quickly replace it with another similar copy-paste javascript thingie. You do need to worry about backups and data portability ahead of time though.

Excellent point.

Youtube was down this morning and the embedded videos were gone, too. That's javascript widgets for you.

We built our service (Feed.Us) so if our servers & code burn in a fiery ball of destruction, it won't effect your site.

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