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Google terminated [[AdSense]] for Feeds on October 2, 2012 and shut it down on December 3, 2012.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://techcrunch.com/2012/09/28/the-feedburner-deathwatch-continues-google-kills-adsense-for-feeds/|title=Continues: Google Kills AdSense For Feeds|publisher=TechCrunch|date=September 28, 2012|access-date=September 29, 2012}}</ref> |
Google terminated [[AdSense]] for Feeds on October 2, 2012 and shut it down on December 3, 2012.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://techcrunch.com/2012/09/28/the-feedburner-deathwatch-continues-google-kills-adsense-for-feeds/|title=Continues: Google Kills AdSense For Feeds|publisher=TechCrunch|date=September 28, 2012|access-date=September 29, 2012}}</ref> |
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On April 14, 2021, Google announced they would migrate FeedBurner to new infrastructure but remove "non-core" functionality including email subscriptions.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Upcoming changes to FeedBurner |
On April 14, 2021, Google announced they would migrate FeedBurner to new infrastructure but remove "non-core" functionality including email subscriptions, browser-friendly viewing, and password-protection.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Upcoming changes to FeedBurner in July 2021 - Feedburner Help|url=https://support.google.com/feedburner/answer/10483501|access-date=2021-04-14|website=Feedburner Help|language=en}}</ref> |
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==References== |
==References== |
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Revision as of 23:19, 14 April 2021
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Type of site | Web feed management |
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| Owner | |
| URL | feedburner.google.com |
| Launched | February 29, 2004 |
| Current status | Active |
FeedBurner is a web feed management service that provides custom RSS feeds and management tools for bloggers, podcasters and other web-based content publishers. It was founded in 2004[1] and acquired by Google in 2007.
Services
Services provided to publishers include traffic analysis[2] and an optional advertising system. Though it initially was not clear whether advertising would be well-suited to the RSS format,[3] authors now choose to include advertising in two-thirds of FeedBurner's feeds.[4] Users can find out how many people have subscribed to their feeds and with what service/program they subscribed.
Published feeds are modified in several ways, including automatic links to Digg and del.icio.us, and "splicing" information from multiple feeds.[5] FeedBurner is a typical Web 2.0 service, providing web service application programming interfaces (APIs) to allow other software to interact with it. As of October 5, 2007, FeedBurner hosted over a million feeds for 584,832 publishers, including 142,534 podcast and videocast feeds.[6]
History
FeedBurner was founded in 2004 by Dick Costolo, Eric Lunt, Steve Olechowski, and Matt Shobe. The four founders were consultants together at Andersen Consulting (now Accenture).[1]
On June 3, 2007, FeedBurner was acquired by Google for a rumored price of $100 million.[7] One month later, two of their popular "Pro" services (MyBrand and TotalStats) were made free to all users.[8]
On May 26, 2011, Google announced that the FeedBurner APIs were deprecated.[9] Google shut down the APIs on October 20, 2012.[10]
Google terminated AdSense for Feeds on October 2, 2012 and shut it down on December 3, 2012.[11]
On April 14, 2021, Google announced they would migrate FeedBurner to new infrastructure but remove "non-core" functionality including email subscriptions, browser-friendly viewing, and password-protection.[12]
References
- ^ a b Wolinsky, Howard (2005-09-06). "Helping Publishers, Bloggers Get the Word Out". Chicago Sun-Times. Archived from the original on 2006-03-17. Retrieved 2019-01-24.
- ^ "Mining For Data In Blogs". TechWeb. 2006-07-17. Archived from the original on July 20, 2006. Retrieved 2006-08-10.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link) - ^ "Advertisers Muscle Into RSS". Wired News. 2004-11-18. Retrieved 2006-08-10.
- ^ "FeedBurner buys BlogBeat, expanding blog analysis". Reuters. 2006-07-17. Retrieved 2006-08-10.
- ^ "The Feed Thickens". Flickr. 2004-07-14. Retrieved 2006-08-10.
- ^ "About FeedBurner". FeedBurner.com. Retrieved 2007-09-30.
- ^ "Techcrunch confirms Google buyout of FeedBurner".
- ^ "FreeBurner for Everyone". FeedBurner. Archived from the original on February 16, 2009. Retrieved 2007-10-27.
Beginning today, two of FeedBurner's previously for-pay services, TotalStats and MyBrand, will be free.
- ^ "Spring cleaning for some of our APIs". Google Code. Retrieved 2011-05-27.
These APIs are now deprecated but have no scheduled shutdown date: Code Search API, Diacritize API, Feedburner APIs, Finance API, Power Meter API, Sidewiki API, Wave API.
- ^ "FeedBurner API (Deprecated)". Google Inc. Archived from the original on May 5, 2012. Retrieved 2012-09-11.
Important: The Google Feedburner APIs have been officially deprecated as of May 26, 2011 will be shut down on October 20, 2012.
- ^ "Continues: Google Kills AdSense For Feeds". TechCrunch. September 28, 2012. Retrieved September 29, 2012.
- ^ "Upcoming changes to FeedBurner in July 2021 - Feedburner Help". Feedburner Help. Retrieved 2021-04-14.