FeedBurning

Feedburner is a web 2.0 news feed management system. Founded in 2004, Feedburner provides tools to bloggers, podcasters, and other web masters to provide unique RSS feeds. Google purchased Feedburner in 2007 for 100 million, and subsequently eliminated the fees on many of Feedburners pay programs. An interview with Dick Costolo, prompted him for advice for bloggers and entrepreneurs. For bloggers he advised writing frequently and for entrepreneurs to not take the advice of others. Costolo noted that, “There are fifty reasons not to start a company, and when you start it, there are fifty reasons not to continue to pursue it when you run into the first spot of trouble…You have to focus solely on what you want to accomplish and ignore everything else.” I think that’s the type of entrepreneurial spirit that succeeds in the web. That’s the news for feedburner, plain and simple.