Comments on: FeedBurner Integrates Web Services Into Feeds

By: olydn

olydn — Wed, 28 Feb 2007 16:26:11 +0000

By: TechCrunch » Web 2.0 Companies I Couldn’t Live Without

TechCrunch » Web 2.0 Companies I Couldn’t Live Without — Fri, 30 Dec 2005 08:51:13 +0000

[...] FeedBurnerI love the statistics it provides on feed readership and has lots of advanced features that are important to me. And despite what I’ve written in the past, I know and trust the FeedBurner team. I just wish they’d get rid of the advertisement on my feed page. [...]

By: mathewingram.com/work » Blog Archive » Feedburner gets even better

mathewingram.com/work » Blog Archive » Feedburner gets even better — Sat, 24 Dec 2005 19:50:28 +0000

[...] As far as I can tell, Feedburner was one of the first companies to see that this was going to take off — and that people were going to need a way to produce a feed without having to worry about whether it was RSS .90 or RSS 2.0 or Atom or whatever. They’ve added some new features called FeedFlare (hat tip to TechCrunch, as usual) that beef up your feed — adding links to send an item by email, send an email to the author, search for links in technorati.com, tag it with del.icio.us and see how many comments there are. [...]

By: Peter Oliver

Peter Oliver — Thu, 15 Dec 2005 01:59:12 +0000

Kind of related to #13 is this point over at 2.0Ventures. http://2.0ventures.com/index.p.....web-stats/

By: Mashable*

Mashable* — Wed, 14 Dec 2005 21:59:41 +0000

FeedBurner Releases FeedFlare , Makes RSS Feeds Interactive

So this is now yesterday’s news, but I finally got around to adding Feedburner’s new service FeedFlare to my RSS feed. If you’re on the Feedburner feed (I think most people are), you’ll see new options appearing at the botto…

By: Mashable* » FeedBurner Releases FeedFlare , Makes RSS Feeds Interactive

Mashable* » FeedBurner Releases FeedFlare , Makes RSS Feeds Interactive — Wed, 14 Dec 2005 21:51:10 +0000

[...] [More from TechCrunch, Fred Wilson, Ross Mayfield and others] [...]

By: alexking.org: Blog

alexking.org: Blog — Wed, 14 Dec 2005 21:01:39 +0000

FeedFlare Skepticism

FeedBurner’s FeedFlare announcement has a lot of people excited. While I applaud the concept behind this new offering (making feeds more interactive and containing interesting data), I’m not wild about their implementation.
My hesitance a…

By: alexking.org: Blog > FeedFlare Skepticism

alexking.org: Blog > FeedFlare Skepticism — Wed, 14 Dec 2005 20:30:37 +0000

[...] FeedBurner’s FeedFlare announcement has a lot of people excited. While I applaud the concept behind this new offering (making feeds more interactive and containing interesting data), I’m not wild about their implementation. [...]

By: Stephanie

Stephanie — Wed, 14 Dec 2005 13:41:03 +0000

Totally kewl. We used it on our site - thanks!!!

By: Paul Watson

Paul Watson — Wed, 14 Dec 2005 11:54:26 +0000

Interesting to see how fragile Bloglines’ “post updated” algorithms are. This new FeedBurner service highlights it as it is rolled out. A couple of feeds I monitor are suddenly showing many “unread” items because of the new links at the bottom (including TechCrunch.com.)

For some feeds that means 50 unread items, 49 of which I actually have read.

By: Somewhat Frank

Somewhat Frank — Wed, 14 Dec 2005 10:08:19 +0000

FeedFlare: Interactive RSS By FeedBurner

We have all heard of flare, whether if be via the movie Office Space or the actual emergency flares you use when you are in distresss. Today, flare has a new meaning since FeedBurner announced a new web services product

By: Richard

Richard — Wed, 14 Dec 2005 05:44:05 +0000

Thanks Rick, you answered my questions completely. Some could have just said, then don’t use our product but it’s the little things like this that make me respect a company.

By: Laughing Squid » FeedBurner, FeedFlare and New Feeds

Laughing Squid » FeedBurner, FeedFlare and New Feeds — Wed, 14 Dec 2005 00:32:21 +0000

[...] They are also planning on opening up their API’s to third party developers, which I’m sure will lead to more great stuff. See Michael Arrington’s TechCrunch write-up for a more detailed analysis of FeedFlare. [...]

By: Laughing Squid

Laughing Squid — Wed, 14 Dec 2005 00:30:50 +0000

FeedBurner, FeedFlare and New Feeds

So I’ve been using FeedBurner for our RSS feeds for almost year now and it keeps getting better. Today FeedBurner launched FeedFlare which adds a whole bunch of cool new optional features to your feeds including:

By: Oskr

Oskr — Wed, 14 Dec 2005 00:14:24 +0000

Feedburner is called to be the leader of this segment but i think they can make other step in their career and give us the option to join several feeds in one feed.
I know the licenses conflicts but this can be solved.
Good Luck and thanks for this FeedFlare to Feedburner.

By: Scott Kingery

Scott Kingery — Wed, 14 Dec 2005 00:01:57 +0000

@11 - Lets say you move your blog or something like that. Well, you just go into feedburner and change the source feed url. All your subscribers don’t have to do anything. Or you could be like Robert Scobel and ask 9000 people to resubscribe.
Feedburner rocks.
@12 - Right, you get stats too.

By: exoskeleton

exoskeleton — Tue, 13 Dec 2005 23:54:26 +0000

FeedBurner Adds in New Features

I’ve seen a bunch of articles today in the “techno-blogosphere” about FeedBurner launching a new service called FeedFlare. From their official blog, RSS feeds will now be able to include the following info:

By: Read/WriteWeb

Read/WriteWeb — Tue, 13 Dec 2005 23:25:10 +0000

FeedBurner makes RSS interactive, with FeedFlare

Feedburner has integrated Web services with feeds, in a new product released just now called FeedFlare. I got a sneak preview of FeedFlare and it’s currently activated in my RSS feed. You may have noticed some new active and contextual…

By: Griffin

Griffin — Tue, 13 Dec 2005 23:13:23 +0000

Rick - Great place to be coming from. In which case, all the power to you I say.

I also read the link’s post/comments and just for the record and this isn’t directed at anyone in particular, more of a strawman here, I am not a feedburner subscriber. I gobble it up for free.

However, I don’t think this eliminates me or anyone from stating a preference. I don’t like the ad. Hell, Rick could stick a Wal-Mart ad on there and I probably still use it. Doesn’t mean I can’t say I disagree with the decision regardless of what I pay or don’t. There’s a difference between feedback and complaints.

Perhaps not the place for this but, again, not directed at anyone, just an opinion for the record.

By: Get Real

Get Real — Tue, 13 Dec 2005 21:03:26 +0000

FeedFlare: Feedback Through The Feed

The nice folks at Feedburner have added a new capability called Feedflare, which basically allows you to instrument your RSS with all sorts of feedback widgets that front for various web services: [from Burning Questions - The Official FeedBurner Weblo…

By: teknokool.net » links for 2005-12-13

teknokool.net » links for 2005-12-13 — Tue, 13 Dec 2005 20:29:16 +0000

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By: Rick Klau

Rick Klau — Tue, 13 Dec 2005 19:56:22 +0000

Michael & Griffin -

Duly noted; Dick’s explanation over at KBCafe - http://www.kbcafe.com/rss/?guid=20051208070037 - is indicative of where we’re headed. Specifically:

“As I’ve said in michael’s comments, the right answer is to put the customer in control and give publishers the ability to style their own landing page, and then people can promote (or demote!) whatever collection of web chicklets, desktop clients and more that they would like to promote (in addition of course to making the style sheet look more like their own brand, etc.). I think that’s the right answer, because it takes any subjectivity out of the equation. We know we need to do that. As our post announcing the new style sheet mentioned, we’ve got a couple things to wrap up and then we’ll get to this.”

In other words, coming soon. Thanks, as always, for the feedback.

–Rick

By: Griffin

Griffin — Tue, 13 Dec 2005 19:43:38 +0000

Yeah, what Michael says. Kill the ad. I don’t like it. Not awful, as far as ads go, but give me the option at least.

By: Michael Arrington

Michael Arrington — Tue, 13 Dec 2005 19:33:16 +0000

Rick,

How about killing the feedemon ad on the feed page that I mentioned here? http://www.techcrunch.com/2005.....-on-trust/

By: Rick Klau

Rick Klau — Tue, 13 Dec 2005 19:31:25 +0000

Richard said:

“Iâ€™ve thought about using Feedburner, but what happens in a year, if they start adding something to the feed I donâ€™t agree with. I then want to go somewhere else or run my own RSS, I donâ€™t see how you move your feed from them without problems.”

First off, we don’t ever put anything in your feed that you don’t ask us to. Period.

Secondly, moving your feed off of FeedBurner is very simple. Check out this post:

http://www.burningdoor.com/fee.....01251.html

for more details. If you ever choose to leave, upon deletion of the feed we’ll redirect your feed traffic (issuing permanent redirects so subscribing aggregators will know to update the feed URL) back to you. You won’t lose subscribers.

Final note, we recommend using URL redirects (details here: http://forums.feedburner.com/viewtopic.php?t=17 ) so that the URL you share with the outside world is yours; that way you retain control over the feed URL. If you choose to leave, most if not all of your subscribers will be subscribed to your version of the feed, not ours. (But if they are using ours, we’ll redirect them, as stated above.)

If this doesn’t cover your concerns, just drop us a note: we want to be a service publishers consider without qualification, and hopefully we’ve removed the risk in trying out the service.

Regards,

Rick

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