Tuesday, June 16, 2009

feedburner


What is feedburner?
For those who are hustler on blogging you guys must be know what is this feedburner.

Here is the info i quoted from wikipedia.com
Enjoy reading

FeedBurner is a web 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] Users can find out how many people have subscribed to their feeds and with what service/program they subscribed with.

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 October 5, 2007, FeedBurner hosted over a million feeds for 584,832 publishers, including 142,534 podcast and videocast feeds.[6]

On June 3, 2007, FeedBurner was acquired by Google Inc., for a rumored price of $100 million.[7] One month later, two of their popular PRO services (MyBrand and TotalStats) were made free to all users.[8]

On August 15, 2008, Google completed migration of FeedBurner into its group of services.[citation needed] Publishers who have completed migration will access FeedBurner via feedburner.google.com.


Technical problems

One frequent technical problem with FeedBurner is the reduced number of subscribers being reported for the blogs using the service. Usually this problem is connected with one specific RSS reader or client. In April 2009, for example, FeedBurner was having problems reporting subscribers using the Google Feedfetcher service[9] .

Blocking

Although the main page is accessible and one can use its APIs, the actual feeds generated byFeedBurner are blocked in Mainland China.[citation needed] This decision could have been made in order to make users choose the Chinese alternative FeedSky or due to the fact that one could use FeedBurner to access content from blocked blogs.


quoted from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FeedBurner





it looks like the Google has bought this company before. I wonder why Google has so much money? They keep buying company that seems get a lot of demand in the net..hmm....better planning for something rite now...;)


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