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A lot of us around here have blogs and a lot of us use FeedBurner to "host" our RSS feeds. I thought it was worth talking about what might happen if we los
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Robin Good's insight:
If you are a curator or web publisher using RSS feeds an Feedburner here is something that you definitely want to pay attention to, as Google may soon close down this service.
Chris Coyer has an informative and useful article analyzing what is going to happen, and what you can do now or later to handle this likely event.
From the comments, Maxime Valette writes: "...sign that FeedBurner is shutting down soon is that the “permanent redirection” on delete is a new option since October. Before that it was only a “30-day redirection”. Update an outdated service like FeedBurner just to improve the deletion service is generally not a good sign."
Useful, informatve. 7/10
Full article: http://css-tricks.com/lets-say-feedburner-shuts-down/
It's as well to be prepared, and this article gives some useful tips should Google decide to shut down the Feedburner service (and the omens are not good, following the announcement about the shut down of Google Reader).
I moved all my RSS to Feedly when Google nerfed their reader last year, a sacrafice to the Google+ initiative. Feedly is, in many ways, superiour to the old reader if you are only using it for solo-reading, It doesn't have a social media component.