Pack Your Feed’s Bags, We’re Moving In With Google
Jan 23
Google is requiring all FeedBurner accounts to be transferred to Google Accounts. All of your FeedBurner accounts must be moved by February 28, 2009 or they will cease to work returning a “404 Not Found” response.
There has been a lot of debate about FeedBurner’s fate when Google acquired it back June of 2007 for somewhere around $100 million.
Personally, I think it’s a little early to start throwing stones. I was looking around Feedburner.com trying to find away to backup my subscriber details when I ran across this explanation that may answer many of our concerns:
Will I lose all my subscribers in this process?
“You should not lose any readers of your feed during this transition process. All feeds.feedburner.com URLs will redirect your readers to feeds hosted by Google. Your readers will continue to receive your feeds. However, the reporting and analytics may take up to a week to adjust to internet traffic changes, so the number of subscribers you see in analytics reports may be lower for a short period of time.“
I can certainly understand the concerns of those blogs fortunate enough to service large feeds. A large part of their livelihood depends on the feeds going out. I’m a little nervous myself about the transfer but we really have little choice. I hope it is just a matter of ‘what we see‘ and not a database disaster. I guess time will tell. I’ll probably make the transfer this weekend unless I hear more bad news on the project. What do you think about the transfer? Is it just getting all googled up into another mess or do you think it’s an improvement?
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