Upload your new product feed or updates to your existing SingleFeed while you manage other aspects of your account (or even browse other websites)! 

The Background Upload (uniquely named) is available on the Upload menu on your Product page.  When this feature is selected, you can upload a file in the background, and receive progress updates in the foreground while you manage other areas of your Account and Engines — saving YOU time!

Click the link below to see a little video sample as to how to use and save time with the Background Upload feature:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cD0WcHyJanI

We just released a new feature for the SingleFeed Correction Wizard.  Now, when you upload a large feed, you no longer have to stick around or check back in a little while to see if the Correction Wizard has completed the checking and fixing of your new SingleFeed.

The Correction Wizard will always send an email to your SingleFeed account email address with a summary of Correction Wizard results with quick links back to your Products page (and to fix any outstanding issues) immediately upon completion.

You will receive in your email:

• The total number of corrections made by the Correction Wizard in your feed. (my favorite bit of info)
• The total number of products identified.
• The total number of active products (no problems, active and live).
• The total number of problems (products with incomplete or erroneous information that you can easily fix by clicking the link within the email).

I know you will enjoy this new feature and timesaver.  And, stay tuned for more…

Enjoy!

Jeremy Horn
SingleFeed

Google’s FTP servers are back online after their earlier problems.

Connectivity between SingleFeed and Google Base / Froogle FTP servers has been restored.

We are still seeing reports of sporadic connectivity problems being experienced by other servers (non-SingleFeed) connecting to Google’s FTP around the Internet.  It looks like Google (and/or Internet infrastructure folks) are working on the problem and connectivity is gradually being restored to everyone.

More Technical Stuff
At the moment, it looks like there may be some routing problems being experienced (as opposed to the earlier assessment of DNS issues).

And more…
If there are any more developments that may impact you, the SingleFeed customer, in any way, we will be sure to post updates here, at the SingleFeed Blog, as soon as we hear anything.

Jeremy Horn
SingleFeed

IMPORTANT:  the domain where feeds are submitted for Google Base / Froogle appears to be broken on the DNS backbone as of the writing of this post.

Technical Jargon
Tonight, we ran a bunch of traceroutes from locations all over the world to try to see if there was a clear path through to the Google FTP, but received failed paths.

What does it mean for you?
While the issue is not being caused by SingleFeed, but by the DNS backbone, we (and anyone who wants to post to Google Base / Froogle) are still impacted.  You will experience long delays in any attempts to activate a new Google Base / Froogle account and posting of the product feed will not be possible by anyone until the DNS backbone rights itself.  For now, we recommend, if you need to make any changes to your Google Base / Froogle Engine to save the changes with the Engine set to inactive; you will have to come back later (once Google has cleared up this matter) to attempt toggle the engine to its active state.

Updates
Stay tuned here.  As soon as we hear more or observe that the situation has cleared up we will let you know that everything has returned to normal.

BTW
Also, take note, no other engines are impacted by this issue; and your SingleFeeds are being submitted to all other engines that you have enabled on schedule.

Jeremy Horn
SingleFeed

I would love to hear and have an open discussion with YOU about what YOU would like to see at SingleFeed, or have improved, or made simpler, etc…

Please, visit the New Feature Requests / Usabilty / User Experience (UX) Forum and share your thoughts and opinions.  You can also get there by clicking the following link:

https://www.singlefeed.com/forum/viewforum.php?f=3

And, everyone, don’t forget we have a brand new set of Forums here at SingleFeed (all hungry for new posts and discussions) so that we can hear from you and you can share your experiences and insight to help us make SingleFeed, and the overall experience, better for everyone.

https://www.singlefeed.com/forum/

Jeremy Horn