Google buys feedburner.
FeedBurner is a news feed management provider launched in 2004.FeedBurner provides custom RSS feeds and management tools to bloggers, podcasters, and other web-based content publishers. FeedBurner is a typical Web 2.0 service, providing web service application programming interfaces (APIs) to allow other software to interact with it. As of June 22, 2007, FeedBurner hosted 779,820 feeds for 454,969 publishers.
On June 3, 2007 FeedBurner was acquired by Google Inc., for a rumored price of $100 million.
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"This is an area where we saw a lot of opportunity and that was growing quickly," Susan Wojcicki, vice president of product management at Google, said in a conference call with reporters.
Google has been expanding aggressively into enabling offline forms of advertising, such as in print and on radio and television. Now it can put ads in the more than 430,000 RSS (Really Simple Syndication) feeds that FeedBurner has and it can expand its AdSense Web site publisher network with the FeedBurner publishers.
This means that the Google's advertisers will have more access to (FeedBurner) publishers.
Goggle has started the integration with blogger by allowing it's users to use feedburner's feed than it's own.
Friday, July 20, 2007
Google Buys Feedburner
Sunday, July 15, 2007
Blogger team wins people of the year By PC Mag
Evan and Meg were the actual founders of Blogger. Paul did all the coding behind this site. Blogger is free service to create blogs .It has now been acquired by Google.
Sunday, June 17, 2007
Twitter is a social networking and micro-blogging service that allows users to send "updates" (text-based posts, up to 140 characters long) via SMS, instant messaging, email, the Twitter website, or an application such as Twitterrific. Twitter was founded in March 2006 by San Francisco start-up company Obvious Corp.
Updates are displayed on the user's profile page and also instantly delivered to other users who have signed up to receive them. The sender can restrict delivery to those in his or her circle of friends (delivery to everyone is the default). Users can receive updates via the Twitter website, instant messaging, SMS, RSS, email or through an application. For SMS, currently three gateway numbers are available: short codes for the USA and Canada and a UK number for international use. While the Twitter service is free, posting and receiving updates via SMS may incur charges from the wireless carrier. Several third parties offer posting and receiving updates via email.
Odeo
Odeo is an online application that allows for recording and sharing podcasts with a simple Macromedia Flash-based interface. It also contains a directory and radio, with podcast channels. Odeo was developed by founders Noah Glass who founded Audioblog and Evan Williams, who previously founders Pyra Labs respectively, and received funding from Charles River Ventures.
Initially this was held by both. Subsequently, Williams bought out Charles River's interest in the company, as well as several other investors, and reformed the organization under a new company, Obvious Corp.
Odeo did'nt see as much success as some of their older products like blogger.They neither made any profit nor loss out of this site. It was all a waste of time.
On February 19, 2007, Evan Williams wrote in his blog that Odeo was for sale. Since late March the site no longer seems to have any new podcasts added.
On May 9, 2007 New York-based Sonic Mountain acquired Odeo. Sonic Mountain, in turn, has been acquired by the Amergence Group.
Currently it has a Alexa ranking of 10k+ (10,000+).
Visit Odeo.com
Evan creates Obvious
The co-founder of Pyra labs & the original creator of Blogger is now the founder of Obvious Corp. He founded this company after he left Google.
As a part of this company he has created Odeo.com & Twitter.com. Though Odeo has not seen much success but Twitter has seen some.
Odeo is not making any profit at the same time it's making no loss either. Now they are even considering selling it. This what they carry on their site/blog
"If you're interested in Odeo and can make a serious offer—either in cash or the ability to invest in it while we retain some equity—email me (ev AT obvious) for more details."
Evan is no longer with Google.
Evan Williams, who launched Pyra Labs in 1999 to facilitate other people's Web logs, announced his imminent departure from Google--appropriately enough--in a blog posting.
"Yes, I'm leaving my baby (or is it an adolescent by now?)," Williams wrote Monday. "As of this Friday, I will no longer be employed by Google." "
Google acquired Pyra Labs and its Blogger service in February 2003 to attract loyal Web site visitors and perhaps even generate profits.
After acquiring Blogger, Google rescinded fees for premium services and revamped the site.
Meg Hourihan- blogger co-founder
She is the co-author of We Blog: Publishing Online with Weblogs (ISBN 0-7645-4962-6), and a frequent speaker at technical conferences concerning online journalism and the role of women in technology.
Hourihan was named a Young Innovator Who Will Create the Future in 2003 by MIT's Technology Review magazine. PC Magazine named Hourihan as one of its 2004 People of the Year .
Evan Williams
Evan Williams, born in 1972, a native of Nebraska, is an American entrepreneur who has founded two Internet companies.
Williams and Meg Hourihan co-founded Pyra Labs to make project management software, but parts of the application were used to create Blogger, one of the first web applications for creating and managing blogs. The company survived despite the departure of Hourihan and other employees, and was eventually acquired by Google.
Williams left Google in 2004 to co-found Odeo, a podcasting company. In late 2006, Williams co-founded Obvious Corp with Biz Stone and other former Odeo employees. Obvious has acquired all previous properties of Odeo, Inc., including Odeo and Twitter, another project started by Williams.
He maintains the popular weblog Evhead.com.
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Tuesday, April 10, 2007
Blogger Story
This is what the Creaters of Blogger.com have to Say about their creation.
"Blogger was started by a tiny company in San Francisco called Pyra Labs in August of 1999. This was in the midst of the dot-com boom. But we weren't exactly a VC-funded, party-throwing, foosball-in-the-lobby-playing, free-beer-drinking outfit. (Unless it was other people's free beer.)
We were three friends, funded by doing annoying contract web projects for big companies, trying to make our own grand entrance onto the Internet landscape. What we were originally trying to do doesn't matter so much now. But while doing it, we created Blogger, more or less on a whim, and thought — Hmmm... that's kinda interesting.
Blogger took off, in a small way, and eventually a bigger way, over a couple years. We raised a little money (but stayed small). And then the bust happened, and we ran out of money, and our fun little journey got less fun. We narrowly survived, not all in one piece, but kept the service going the whole time (most days) and started building it back up.
Things were going well again in 2002. We had hundreds of thousands of users, though still just a few people. And then something no one expected happened: Google wanted to buy us. Yes, that Google
We liked Google a lot. And they liked blogs. So we were amenable to the idea. And it worked out nicely.
Now we're a small (but slightly bigger than before) team in Google focusing on helping people have their own voice on the web and organizing the world's information from the personal perspective. Which has pretty much always been our whole deal. "
