Google has finally begun migrating RSS feeds that are being hosted on Feedburner over to Google's own servers. It's been over a year since Google acquired Feedburner, and since then the service's 1.92 million feeds have generally been untouched. Why now? Google has begun rolling out Adsense for feeds after closing the doors on Feedburner's CPM-based advertising solution. Before you can place ads in your feeds,

The new year has just begun and if 2008 is anything like 2007, we should expect a bunch of acquisitions in the tech world.  As I heard someone say recently, acquisitions should be considered the lottery for geeks, except the odds of "winning" are much higher than the actual lottery. Google, Yahoo, Microsoft and others have been swiping up start-up after

Many of you have probably heard of the Google Feedfetcher before if you're a FeedBurner publisher. It is what Google uses to go and crawl RSS feeds for people subscribed to them using Google IG, Google Reader, and any other place Google displays feeds. Each time Google goes to fetch a feed it supplies the number of subscribers so that publishers know how many of their feed readers are using Google's services.

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If you visit Google today, you'll notice the usual logo has been replaced with the one you see pictured to the right.  It's Google's 9th Birthday, and they're celebrating! While there are actually several dates that could be considered Google's birthday, clearly they acknowledge today, September 27th as their official birthday, the day that they became incorporated and their name was

FeedBurner just announced that because they were acquired by Google they are now able to offer their PRO package at no cost to all users. What kind of goodness does such a package get you? For starters you can get advanced stat tracking that lets you see who has viewed or clicked items in your feed. It also lets you

Why wouldn’t Google buy FeedBurner was the question that everybody was asking last week when rumors surfaced that an acquisition was under-way. It makes perfect sense. FeedBurner is known as the RSS Management service that many, many sites use, as well as an advertising service that’s held its own. TechCrunch just reported that in fact, the deal is confirmed and FeedBurner will be receiving a $100 Million Dollar paycheck.

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I have always been a big fan of using the FeedBurner Headline Animator as a signature in your emails, forum posts, and just about anywhere else that you’re trying to attract new readers. A post that I did several months ago regarding email signatures mentioned the Headline Animator and its usefulness, and then about a month ago someone created a Greasemonkey script to allow HTML signatures to be inserted into emails created