Rumors about Google acquiring RSS management company Feedburner from last week, started by ex-TechCrunch UK editor Sam Sethi, are accurate and are now confirmed according to a source close to the deal. Feedburner lists Approximately 500,000 publishers of blog and podcast feeds which are owned by corporations, small businesses as well as individuals who uses its services to monetize their feeds. It is an excellent service that help blog owners to monitor subscriptions and user interaction.
Recently with many top notch services like Dodgeball, Writely, Deja (google groups), Keyhole (earth), Picasa, YouTube, and many more are acquired, this acquisition is definitely a big step towards monetizing millions of feeds.
