Lots of chatter about the usefulness and relevance of FeedBurner since the Google acquisition 1. Chris Baskind formalizes it by updating the reasons not to use Feedburner to cache your feeds. “FeedBurner is showing its age. While Google has ignored its new baby, technology has been steaming ahead.” – Chris Baskind Baskind’s analysis is more […]
The more work I do parsing and aggregating feeds, the more annoyed I am with Google’s Feedburner published feeds (part 1). As you know, I don’t see the need for Feedburner and believe their useful services (metrics, being smart about enclosures and tags, etc) is more effectively done within the weblog/publishing software1 for 99% of […]
Consistent with my hypothesis that Google is a social gesture company, they bought FeedBurner (a company finally reaching its only exit strategy, Thank god). Four Predictions: Six Apart now pulls auto-FeedBurning from TypePad blogs due to conflict of interest. Google incorporates FeedBurners metrics into Google Analytics and sends the rest of FeedBurner to play with […]
My 2 most recent pet peeves: Permalinks that are actually Feedburner redirects. Feed links that are actually Feedburner landing pages Anyone else or just me? LATER: Some elaboration as requested by Jake Parrillo from the Publisher Services Team: Jake, Thanks for the note. To start, I use NetNewsWire as my aggregator. By redirects, I mean […]
(photo from Feedburner Fotos) I’ve got a lonely XL Feedburner PodcastExpo 2006 T-shirt lying around that I’m happy to pass along to someone that – unlike myself – can fill it out. Put your offers in the comments. Franks.