Comments on: Open Letter to Google, Feedburner

By: Amit Dixit

Amit Dixit — Fri, 17 Aug 2007 01:24:53 +0000

Feedburner has more potential than its price of $100 million……I really admire Google :)…in future this deal will be more fruitful for Google than their acquisition of doulbleclick…..funny thing is; Not in terms of Ad Network.

As, a feedburner user i really expect its identity to kept intact by Google. Good luck / Congratulation to Both of Them!

By: Travis Seitler

Travis Seitler — Fri, 25 May 2007 03:39:36 +0000

…yeah, I just meant “little guys” as compared to Google, Yahoo, etc.

By: Mike

Mike — Fri, 25 May 2007 00:55:39 +0000

This is a bad day for the web publishing community. How long before Big G buy up all the competition?

They are now adopting a new rule. Purchase or Punish. If a competitor is amenable to being purchased, then do it. If not, then punish them in the SERPs.

I am so unbelievably pissed off with this “deal” it’s not true.

By: Gary King

Gary King — Thu, 24 May 2007 22:54:56 +0000

FeedBurner _owns_ that market. They aren’t the little guy. They are synonymous with ‘feed stats’. You practically expect most feeds to use FeedBurner these days.

By: Aaron Brazell

Aaron Brazell — Thu, 24 May 2007 21:15:38 +0000

I don’t know of anyone who considers FeedBurner to be “the little guy”. Remember the podcast interview with Rick Klau where we were talking about the market share that FB has.

By: Travis Seitler

Travis Seitler — Thu, 24 May 2007 20:48:50 +0000

I have to admit that I would love to be behind a tool that I could sell in a few years for $100 million.

On the other hand, I wouldn’t want to screw over people who fell in love with that tool specifically because it was run by “one of the little guys.” As much as I like Google, they’re beginning to creep me out…