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FIR Interview: FeedBlitz CEO Phil Hollows on RSS and the future of Feedburner

Listen Now: In May, Google quietly announced it would shut down the API for FeedBurner, the most popular tool for managing and measuring RSS feeds. While the service will continue to process RSS feeds – only third-party apps that use the service will be affected – Google has been quiet about the service’s future, telling TechCrunch as recently as September 24 that the company had nothing to announce. Meanwhile, speculation is rampant that the long-neglected service for which Google paid…

Moving on from Feedburner to Feedblitz

After seven years, it’s time to say goodbye to Feedburner and say hello to Feedblitz. A week ago, I wrote about my worries that RSS feeds delivered via Feedburner might not work after October 20, after a note on the Google Developers’ Feedburner website said that the Feedburner APIs would shut down on that date. I noted at the time: RSS is the “delivery backbone” for creating and delivering much of the content that people use the internet for. You…

Prepare for goodbye Feedburner in October 2012

[Update September 15: Moving on from Feedburner to Feedblitz. I decided to move away from Feedburner. The post you’re reading, and it’s update at the end, tries to throw some light on a murky picture, with limited success. I’ve made my decision to go to Feedblitz, explained in the new post.] Did you know that Google intends to shut down access to Feedburner’s APIs on October 20? A banner note on the Google Developers Feedburner API page makes that intent…

A look into RSS feeds managed by Google

Last weekend, all my RSS feeds that have been managed by Feedburner over the past four years were auto-migrated to Google. This is a culmination of a process arising from Googleâ€™s acquisition of Feedburner in mid 2007 where all RSS feeds hosted by Feedburner will be moved over to a new RSS service Google established. Itâ€™s also related to Google Adsense. Indeed, my RSS feed will carry advertising, just as it has done for the past two years when the…