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Why Buying FeedBurner is Really Smart of Google

marshallk.com — Techcrunch is confirming a rumor surfaced last week by former TechCrunch UK writer Sam Sethi - that Google is going to buy FeedBurner for $100 million. Smart, smart, smart I say. Here's a couple of things I want to throw into the conversation.

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  • trollick, on 10/11/2007, -1/+9"FeedBurner is one of the flagship companies of a paradigm that I think is key to the web 2.0 economy - give free services to consumers to build brand awareness, scalability, etc. and then monetize enterprise sales."

    Wow... Is "leverage" the only ***** buzzword that's missing from this sentence? Oh wait... "synergy" is missing too.
  • RBotros, on 10/11/2007, -2/+9I'm not sure if this article really explained why it was smart of Google to buy Feedburner.
  • marshallk, on 10/11/2007, -0/+4Aaargh! ;) Thanks, I've heard worse!
  • spinchange, on 10/11/2007, -0/+3"Just like interest I draw on my bank account is mine to take out of that bank along with my deposit at any time - so too will we someday have the option of nearly one-click export and erase OUR data from any given vendor. Big vendors will understand this or they will lose."

    Still sounds pretty "faith-based" to me.
  • alanflores, on 10/11/2007, -1/+4for a moment i thought i was reading an FBI most wanted list.
  • chubbymidget, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2ummm Why not. It may payoff it may not. No big loss.

    $100mil to Google is like a $5 scratch-off to us
  • glog, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2Whoa, I am quite sure this website belongs to Rasputin!
  • carguy84, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2anyone else find this funny: "Techcrunch is confirming a rumor...". What is techcrunch and since when did they become an authority on anything other then digg gaming?
  • inactive, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1Smart becuase they couldn't do it on their own...

    Like with Google Maps. Or Youtube...or quite a few others.
  • Jonty, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1Actually, you're supposed to capitalise only important words (not 'is' or 'of', for example) in titles, so that looks all right.
  • Jonty, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1I noticed that, too. The awful thing is, it almost seems to have meaning.
  • MimsyMaple, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1http://www.writersblock.ca/tips/monthtip/tipmar98.htm
    He just missed the I in is.
  • marshallk, on 10/11/2007, -2/+2All right, all right! If my girlfriend, my mom AND some random digger named prezzy says that picture has to go then the picture has to go. http://www.marshallk.com/marshallsheadfinal.png has left the page.
  • thecatisdead, on 10/11/2007, -1/+1smart, smart, smart

    ...yep, that'd be google :-D
  • carguy84, on 10/11/2007, -1/+1Were you dressed as a terrorist for halloween in that pic? ;)
  • prezzy, on 10/11/2007, -1/+1Nice creepy picture on the right side of the blog. Im afraid I cant get past that to read the story.
  • bpapa, on 10/11/2007, -2/+1Yeah, it just seemed like the guy was going on and on about feedburner but not so much why it was so smart for Google to buy them. Hrrrrm... maybe the reason is hidden in that beard of his?
  • nexah3, on 10/11/2007, -5/+4Why capitalizing Random words in Titles Looks Retarded
  • inactive, on 10/11/2007, -2/+1Because they can't innovate anymore?
  • ImAzIr, on 10/11/2007, -1/+0What Yahoo will do to counter this according to you??
  • drewolanoff, on 06/10/2008, -3/+1Good call!
  • inactive, on 10/11/2007, -3/+1Why your Grammar shows of Really Dumb you are.

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