Congratulations FeedBurner

I am a FeedBurner whore. I’ve known Eric Olson (in this picture) since April of last year, when I begged him for an interview at the Podcast Academy in Boston. I met Traci Halipern not too long after and she became someone I count on at FeedBurner. I was an early adopter of their feed networks program, and I’ve rocked FeedBurner stickers all over the place since the first meeting, and got my own roll of stickers for PodCamp Boston.

Quick Education: FeedBurner is a technology that helps one handle the syndication (delivery, formatting, repurposing) of one’s blogs or rich media (podcasts), and FeedBurner handles lots of people’s RSS feeds, including mine, and several super huge media companies as well. Oh, for free, by the way.

I *heart* FeedBurner.

So I’m really happy with the news that Google is acquiring FeedBurner. Why? (by the way, there are 2,141,984 opinions on this today and yesterday in the blogosphere.) I’m happy because I know the FB guys have been working their heads off. I’m happy because I’ve got hopes that this opens some technology opportunities between the two companies. I’m happy because maybe this means that using RSS advertising might suddenly throw even a few coins into the pot for some folks.

Is Google evil? Robert Scoble has a great post about the FOG (Fear of Google) turning into a DOG ( Disdain/Distrust of Google). I don’t think so. But then, I’m biased. I have Google Mail, Google Reader, Google Calendar up and running any time I have a browser up.

So I say congratulations to Eric, Traci, Don Loeb (who spoke at Spring 2007 Video on the Net, by the way), and the rest of the team. I hope you remember me when you’re billionaires.

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