FeedBurner
FeedBurner is a provider for managing web feeds . FeedBurner was founded in 2004 by Dick Costolo , Eric Lunt, Steve Olechowski and Matt Shobe. Costolo graduated from the University of Michigan and was CEO of Twitter from 2010 to 2015 . FeedBurner provides customized RSS feeds and management tools for bloggers , podcasters and other web-based content providers.
services
The services available to the providers include traffic analysis and an optional advertising system. Although it was not initially clear whether advertising would fit the RSS format, today two thirds of authors choose to include advertising in their FeedBurner feeds. Users can see how many people have subscribed to their feeds and what services or programs they did so with.
Published feeds are modified in a number of ways, including automatic links to Digg and del.icio.us, and merging information from multiple feeds. FeedBurner is a typical Web 2.0 service that provides application programming interfaces (APIs) to allow other software to interact with it. On October 5, 2007, FeedBurner hosted over a million feeds for 584,832 authors, including 142,534 podcast and videocast feeds.
history
On June 3, 2007, FeedBurner was acquired by Google Inc. , allegedly for a sum of $ 100 million. A month later, two of their popular "Pro" services (MyBrand and TotalStats) were released to all users.
On May 26, 2011, Google announced that the FeedBurner APIs were deprecated. Google closed the APIs on October 20, 2012.
Google retired AdSense for feeds on October 2, 2012 and closed it on December 3, 2012.
Individual evidence
- ^ Howard Wolinsky: Helping publishers, bloggers get the word out. In: suntimes.com. September 6, 2006, archived from the original on March 17, 2006 ; accessed on July 6, 2016 .
- ↑ Laurie Sullivan: Mining For Data In Blogs. In: TechWeb. July 17, 2006, archived from the original on July 20, 2006 ; accessed on July 6, 2016 .
- ^ Daniel Terdiman: Advertisers Muscle Into RSS. In: Wired . November 18, 2004, archived from the original on November 22, 2004 ; accessed on July 6, 2016 .
- ↑ Reuters: FeedBurner buys BlogBeat, expanding blog analysis. In: cnet.com. August 16, 2006, accessed July 6, 2006 .
- ↑ Stewart Butterfield: The Feed Thickens. In: Flickr . July 14, 2004, accessed July 6, 2016 .
- ↑ Google FeedBurner. (No longer available online.) Feedburner.com, archived from the original on September 29, 2007 ; accessed on September 30, 2007 (English). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Michael Arrington: $ 100 Million Payday For Feedburner - This Deal Is Confirmed. In: TechCrunch . May 23, 2007, accessed July 6, 2016 .
- ↑ Traci: Free Burner for Everyone. In: FeedBurner Weblog. July 3, 2007, archived from the original on February 16, 2009 ; accessed on July 6, 2016 (English): "Beginning today, two of FeedBurner's previously for-pay services, TotalStats and MyBrand, will be free."
- ^ Adam Feldman: Spring cleaning for some of our APIs. In: Google Code blog. June 3, 2001, accessed on July 6, 2016 (English): “These APIs are now deprecated but have no scheduled shutdown date: Code Search API, Diacritize API, Feedburner APIs, Finance API, Power Meter API, Sidewiki API, Wave API "
- ↑ FeedBurner API (Deprecated). In: Google Developers . May 5, 2012, archived from the original on May 5, 2012 ; accessed on July 6, 2016 : "Important: The Google Feedburner APIs have been officially deprecated as of May 26, 2011 will be shut down on October 20, 2012."
- ↑ Frederic Lardinois: The FeedBurner Deathwatch Continues: Google Kills AdSense For Feeds. In: TechCrunch . September 28, 2012, accessed July 6, 2016 .
