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FeedBurner Folks All Across the Land


Springtime at FeedBurner Polytechnic means a few things: More unreasonable weather in Chicago (Tuesday, 70F; last night, raining ice daggers), spring break for the kids, and lots o' conferences. In fact, just today we looked up and suddenly noticed no one was here. Because our conference dance card ...>

Algorithm Update Changes


When you're an outfit like FeedBurner, you tend to see a lot of feed requests from what appears to be a never-ending list of new software clients (350 million requests a day, for those of you counting at home). Maintaining the library of feed-capable clients with names like Rezzibo and @nifty is one ...>

What’s Up With That? Vol. 2: Clicks


A publisher wrote in a couple weeks ago and asked, "Your click count and Google Analytics' click count are way off. What's up with that?" And lo, another "What's up with that?" post was born. Welcome to What's Up With That Volume 2: Clicks. Publishers who are interested in measuring audience engage ...>

Headline Animator Overhaul, Part Three and One-Eighth


Faithful readers are most likely aware of the minutiae that concern us here at FeedBurner inter-agency headquarters, especially when it comes to new features and notable drama such as "We're running low on decaf and 2% milk. OMG!" Today's enhancement to Headline Animator, the FeedBurner service eng ...>

Headline Animator Overhaul, Part 3


In this, the third installment of the widget trilogy that is the Headline Animator overhaul, we're adding to our publisher engagement metrics by providing additional insight into the world's favorite content promotion tool. For the tens of thousands of you currently using FeedBurner's Headline Ani ...>

FeedBurner Is Three


Today is our third birthday and my, how we've grown. Our customer base is 161% bigger than it was this time last year, we've welcomed a bunch of fine new publishers (maybe even you?), and we've won some awards. Today, FeedBurner turns three and the flame-o-con burns brightly among other fast-growin ...>

FeedBurner’s View of the Feed Market


Prompted by widespread buzz from many FeedBurner publishers who blogged about notable increases in feed subscribers over the weekend, we thought now was a good time to step back and talk about media consumption drivers, and how to accurately assess adoption of our increasingly feed-powered Webospher ...>

Google Now Reporting Subscribers


Starting with our Saturday February 17th subscriber reporting, FeedBurner publishers will be able to see how many Google Reader and Google Personalized Homepage subscribers they have. (Thanks, Google!) This information will show up in tonight's subscriber reports (meaning that most of you will start ...>

Quick Enhancements to Site Statistics


A couple quick hits coming this week for the thousands of you (yes, already thousands) using our free StandardStats service to measure traffic to your blog and/or web site. You may now ignore yourself. Not in a selfless, there's-no-"I"-in-"feed" kind of way. No, in the far more vital, omit-your-vis ...>

The Numbers - They Go Down, They Go Up


The best way to describe feed subscription trends is that they are feisty. Some days your numbers are up, some days (like weekends), they can dip down. This is all normal behavior (read more about why feeds behave the way they do in our TechCrunch case study). But sometimes, other things can happen ...>

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