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, 2.2. The upgrade is quick and simple, just like all of their other ones. Copy the new files over the old ones, then hit up wp-admin/upgrade.php and your done.
Here’s a list of the main goodies they’ve included in this release:
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 8:00pm-11:00pm PDT Bloglines will be down for scheduled maintenance. This is a VERY rare instance, and I have to say that Bloglines is WAAY faster then Google Reader for me.
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 Panera in Oldsmar at the meetup starting at 6:30. There are a good number of confirmed people attending. Look forward to meeting everyone tonight.
You can find all of the details here.
Ever seen Blaugh? I follow it through RSS, but I figured I would post up the latest comic from the site, that and Chris Pirillo said he would give $20 to the first Twitter who posted it
It’s sort of a comic for the Web 2.0. Other great web comics include Joy of Tech, and xkcd.