Feedburner Turns 10
Are you feeling lucky? Google Feedburner has been lucky enough to stick around for 10 years, an eternity for a product with millions of users that isn’t even mentioned on the company’s history timeline (google.com/about/company/history/). Feedburner is a web feed management provider launched in 2004 by several guys such as Dick Costolo, who became CEO of Twitter in 2010. It was acquired by Google in June 2007 for the rumored price of $100 million (Dick and his friends made a tidy sum for their invention!)
Because of Feedburner, you are receiving this newsletter to your personal email inbox. It has been absolutely free to use, which is why we signed up for the service. In 2013 Google ended all support for this product, however, and they’ve not said whether they plan to turn it off one day with or without advanced warnings to users. Read more…>
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