Web Design & Development Guide
FeedBurner
FeedBurner is a news feed management provider launched in 2004.[1] FeedBurner provides custom RSS feeds and management tools to bloggers, podcasters, and other web-based content publishers. Services provided to publishers include traffic analysis [2] and an optional advertising system. Though it initially was not clear whether advertising would be well-suited to the RSS format,[3] authors now choose to include advertising in two-thirds of FeedBurner's feeds.[4] Published feeds are modified in several ways, including automatic links to Digg and del.icio.us, and "splicing" information from multiple feeds.[5] FeedBurner is a typical Web 2.0 service, providing web service application programming interfaces (APIs) to allow other software to interact with it. As of June 22, 2007, FeedBurner hosted 779,820 feeds for 454,969 publishers.[6]
On June 3, 2007 FeedBurner was acquired by Google Inc., for a rumored price of $100 million.[7]
Notes
- ^ Helping publishers, bloggers get the word out. Chicago Sun-Times (2005-09-06).
- ^ Mining For Data In Blogs. TechWeb (2006-07-17).
- ^ Advertisers Muscle Into RSS. Wired News (2004-11-18).
- ^ FeedBurner buys BlogBeat, expanding blog analysis. Reuters (2006-07-17).
- ^ The Feed Thickens. Flickr (2004-07-14).
- ^ About FeedBurner. FeedBurner.com.
- ^ Techcrunch confirms Google buyout of FeedBurner.
External links
- FeedBurner website
- How and Why to Use Feedburner - a tutorial
- Setup your Wordpress Blog with Feedburner - a tutorial
- Interview with Dick Costolo: Founder and CEO of FeedBurner
- Interview with Feedburner and BlogBeat founders
- FeedBurner RSS Advertising Network
