Category Archives: feedburner

Google Showing Feedburner Redirect URLs in Search Results 2

Google is showing Feedburner redirect URLs in their search results. They’re using the link: http://feeds.latimes.com/~r/topoftheticket/~3/408704356/palin-couric.html which is a Feedburner redirect URL which they use in RSS feeds to help in tracking. Google owns Feedburner so it’s a bit embarrassing that they’re making such an obvious mistake. This might be distorting the stats for the LA [...]

Would you Pay $1 for a Feed 3

Center Networks things it might be a good idea to charge for feeds: What if blogs and journals offered a full feed for $1 per month with no ads, mobile access, etc. Would you subscribe for a buck? What I am proposing is the following forms of monetization: standard Web site with ads, partial feed [...]

Feedburner Goes to Google – Another Loss for Yahoo 2

Google has officially announced the acquisition of Feedburner today. I also have it on good authority that Yahoo approached Feedburner nearly a year ago about an acquisition and they walked away. Apparently they were looking to get $30M but this price tag was just too much for Yahoo. Of course hindsight is always 20/20.

Dick Costolo on CBS MarketWatch 0

Check this out… Dick Costolo being interviewed on TV – so retro!Hey Dick – think you can introduce me to Bambi?

Need Some mod_rewrite/mod_proxy Voodoo Experts 9

OK you Apache geeks.

Dear Feedburner: Please Increase your File Size Restrictions :) 5

but I can make a few bucks running CPM ads in my feeds.The only problem is that I can’t use my feeds because of this error message:Your feed filesize is larger than 256K…. Tips for controlling feed file size with Blogger can be found in Tech Tips on FeedBurner Forums, our support site.

FeedBurner Subscriber Numbers for the “Feed Blog” 4

They’re now edging out NewsGator (its neck and neck though). Hopefully Yahoo, Google, or Microsoft will take note and buy them so I can get a phat new Mac Pro (I want one so bad)!Where is Google Reader?

Congrats FeedBurner and BlogBeat 0

I just wanted to congratulate both Feedburner and BlogBeat on the new acquisition. Seems like peas and carrots here guys.

HOWTO Setup Autodiscovery with FeedBurner 5

Mike Sansome has written up a great post on how to setup RSS Autodiscovery with FeedBurner.If you’re using FeedBurner to track your feeds, are you sure that’s how readers are subscribing?… Even Seth Godin may have some tweaks to make.Before writing on FeedDemon 2.0, I decided to delete all feeds and start from scratch (I’ll explain why when I post about FeedDemon).

FeedBurner Doubles Feedosphere Reliability 4

They would add another man-in-the-middle One of the capabilities we are very excited to roll out in Q1 will be something we are calling Feed Insurance…. Kevin’s suggestion was to have a separate facility that just redirects feed requests to the publisher’s source feed if anything catastrophic happens to FeedBurner’s hosting network.