Google Buys FeedBurner for $100 Million
Nick Starr | May 24, 2007
Congrats to one of my favorite RSS companies out there, who were purchased by Google for $100,000,000. That’s a lot of zeros, granted not as many as YouTube, but this deal is all in cash money. Feedburner has become a popular tool for bloggers, podcasters and video podcasters because of its ability to translate one feed into many different types of feeds and because it offers a wide range of statistics. The company was founded in 2003 and raised $10 million in VC, meaning quite a payday for everyone involved. Congrats to the team over there.
One question I have, is people who use FeedBurner’s FAN service, will they be able to get Google Ads even if they’ve been booted from Adsense?
Everybody’s favorite blogging platform, Wordpress, has launched their latest version today,
My online life, and let’s be honest my online life is the only one that I have, comes crashing to a screeching hault when Bloglines goes down. Tomorrow from
There has already been 2 Tampa blogger meetups in the past week or so, and I’ve been unable to attend any of them. Tonight I will be up at the 
This has to be the worst timing ever. I just got an offer for a 2nd job in the evenings, which will keep me busy Monday thru Friday, that I am scheduled to start this coming Monday. I doubt I will be able to make all of these events, but it would be nice to hit up the Saturday one.
I’ve off and on listened to the very funny Garrison Keillor’s News from Lake Wobegon. It is a whimisical look at a small town with some of the funniest characters ever assembled.




