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.
Mark
on 02 Jun 07Congrats 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
on 02 Jun 07It’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
on 02 Jun 07Just 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
on 02 Jun 07I 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
on 02 Jun 07This might have been a hit, oh, 1 years ago…
Roman
on 02 Jun 07I hope this can only improve quality of the FeedBurner :)...
Ian
on 02 Jun 07As 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
on 02 Jun 07Chris: I think Dick is sharp for a lot of reasons. Check out Dick’s blog for a hint.
Gustav Mörtberg
on 02 Jun 07Roman, i hope this will improve Google Reader! ;)
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