Feedburner to Google Jun 01
9 comments Latest by Gustav Mörtberg
If you haven’t heard, our fellow Chicagoans at Feedburner are now part of Google. The official announcement was made today.
Congrats to the Feedburner crew and Google. Everyone I know at Feedburner is quality. Feedburner’s man in charge, Dick Costolo, is one the sharpest (and funniest) people I’ve been fortunate enough to meet in the past few years.
Great companies are made of great people and Google definitely gets greater with this acquisition.
Well done on both sides.
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9 comments so far
Mark 02 Jun 07
Congrats to all. I find it very interesting, however, that of all the feed readers out there, Yahoo is apparently the only one now having a problem hooking in to Google / Feedburner’s feed.
Kinda funny, actually.
Dr. Pete 02 Jun 07
It’s great to see some money flowing our way here in Chicago, especially to companies like you guys and Feedburner who actually provide a service (and not Web 2.0 smoke and mirrors).
chris 02 Jun 07
Just curious as to why you found Dick Costolo sharp, could you provide a specific example? Since I never met the guy I just would like to understand why you felt this way..
Long time reader, first time poster.
David 02 Jun 07
I had a little bit of fun with the news!
http://www.daviddalka.com/createvalue/2007/06/01/6-reasons-google-did-not-need-to-acquire-feedburner/
aman901 02 Jun 07
This might have been a hit, oh, 1 years ago…
Roman 02 Jun 07
I hope this can only improve quality of the FeedBurner :)...
Ian 02 Jun 07
As a native Chicagoan who has just moved back from 11 years in Manhattan I am very pleased to read this news. I am also a relatively new blogger and have found Feedburner’s services to be fantastic.
JF 02 Jun 07
Chris: I think Dick is sharp for a lot of reasons. Check out Dick’s blog for a hint.
Gustav Mörtberg 02 Jun 07
Roman, i hope this will improve Google Reader! ;)
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