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March 29, 2005

Are your rss feeds safe with feedburner?

Eric Lunt of Feedburner reassures users that their rss feeds are in safe hands in response to Rogers Cadenhead asking how a weblogger could hand over their most loyal readers to a third party:

I'm sure many publishers are reluctant to offload the feed management to us until they can be assured they will continue to have total control over the URL no matter what happens to FeedBurner. A few more things I just want to say:
1. We never do anything to your feed that the publisher did not elect to do. If you ever see an ad, for example, in a feed managed by FeedBurner, then that's because the publisher wanted it there and is deriving revenue from it.
2. Everything that's free today will be free in the future. We are planning on offering additional premium paid services in the near future.
3. We're not going out of business anytime soon. I can't elaborate on this right now, but you'll have to trust me on that one. (smile)
I totally understand your concerns, and we're doing everything we can to offer features to publishers in as seamless a manner as possible. As soon as we add the ability to redirect off of a FeedBurner feed, I hope we'll have addressed your issues.
Thanks!
Eric Lunt
I've been wondering myself why I'm willing to do it, but that makes me feel a little better.

More: FeedBurner Fully Financed For Future Feed Formatting Fun:

We are well funded by investors who share our vision for the company, and this will enable us to provide a more thorough suite of publisher services. Our existing free services will remain free. There will be new free services, expansions of existing free services, new premium services, the same dedication to customer support we've provided since day one, and hopefully, an office that my daughter can walk into without saying "is this it?"
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Posted by Kevin J. Heller at March 29, 2005 06:14 AM

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