Over a year has passed since Google completed the acquisition of feed massaging and hosting service Feedburner, and today some users now finally have their feeds hosted on what appears to be Google’s servers and infrastructure. At Techcrunch we have always been big fans of Feedburner, and their widgets and RSS subscriber counts have adorned almost all of our sites since their first days. At some point in the past 12 hours, the feed URL at feeds.feedburner.com began to redirect to feedproxy.google.com. Our subscriber count widget dropped to displaying a zero count for a few hours while the domain change took place.
It appears that only select feeds have been migrated, mostly those with higher subscriber counts. This would indicate that Feedburner has turned to Google to assist with serving the load on high-traffic feeds. Over at TechcrunchIT I recently wrote about the problems that some acquired companies have experienced at Google. The proprietary software and hosting stack at Google can often lead to a slowdown in development, an often long migration phase and in some cases death for the acquired company or product. Feedburner has avoided these problems by remaining largely independent of Google since the acquisition, but at some point they have turned to pappa bear for assistance with handling load and we are seeing the results of that today.
When are google ads going public on feedburner? They mentioned it on feedburners blog a long time ago, but haven’t said anything since.
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Amit, you do realize thats something that FB has for a very long time - that’s not ads in the feeds, that’s ads on the site using the fb script code. That’s not the adsense in the feeds that fb was talking about in June.
I use the ads, and it is correct that they don’t show up in the feed. Only on the blog. Subscribe to my blog if you wish, I use feedburner! http://blabtech.blogspot.com
>Feedburner has avoided these problems by remaining largely independent of Google since the acquisition, but at some point they have turned to pappa bear for assistance with handling load and we are seeing the results of that today.
Your kidding right? FeedBurner hasn’t added noticeable new features or fixed glaring bugs in the year they’ve been owned by Google.
Are we now at the point where your startup’s product not regressing after being bought by Google is considered to be a success?
fair point. looking at their blog not much has happen:
http://blogs.feedburner.com/feedburner/
outside of integrating Google ID’s (9 months) and other Googly stuff (12 months+)
Dare - I’ve written about this several times and I agree with you - FB has dropped from one of my favorite startups to a service that hasn’t moved an inch since being acquired. Their ad network has given up selling ads - what was a couple hundred dollars a month from total top tier companies for me has dropped to less than 10 dollars last month. This was my fear when FB was acquired by Google.
I did notice yesterday the proxy address that the TC feed was running from.
I love feedburner, it rocks
Feed massaging? Is that like a chinese massage parlor where employees don’t skeak very fluent english?
Integrate with their system to begin serving ads on popular feeds
Maybe the painful integration and migration to Google’s internal infrastructure is sucking up a lot of development time from the FeedBurner dev team and that’s why they’ve been so slow to fix bugs and/or add features. I wonder, with some of these acquisitions that Google has made, if the people acquired through them stay working on their products or if they get dispersed onto other product teams. I could see that too being a reason why some products seem to “go quiet” after being acquired by google.
will it mean that , if all feed trasfer to google.com, feedburner.com will disappear slowly, and replaced by google?
>will it mean that , if all feed trasfer to google.com, feedburner.com will disappear slowly
New comers will pick up, eg, openfeeder.com or openburner.com
There is always a great chance of competition with those start-ups being purchased by big players due to their very slow transition.
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Let’s not speak about the *new* languages they will add *soon*.
I have been waiting for several years…
Google is behaving more and more like a big company every day… They do not make us dream anymore. Even with their vaporeware (Android, Social web initiatives, …)
Gaining “Google Power” doesn’t pass the smell test. If it did we’d be writing about feedburner.google.com. Google doesn’t care about preserving the FeedBurner brand. Google bought subscribers — that simple.
So, what’s next for ‘Pacmonster’, I mean Google. It’s hunger is insatiable. Hope it doesn’t stop ‘feeding’ though. I think it did not sound right.
Ugh.
…alain
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I started using Feedburner about a month ago to offer email subscriptions to my blog. Everything was working fine till my subscription counts dropped to 0 a few days ago. Scary… A search of the Feedburner forum turned up a ton of seriously frustrated bloggers - and no comments from Feedburner folks to shed any light on the situation. Any word when this is going to get sorted out?
Havent started it using jet but I will try now.
Thanks for post. FeedBurner na strežniku