Comments on: A Hosted FeedBurner Alternative

By: Phil Hollows

Phil Hollows — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 02:30:18 +0000

FeedBlitz has lauched an RSS service to compete with FeedBurner: http://feedblitz.blogspot.com/2009/03/feedburner-alternative-blitz-your-rss.html

Features RSS serving, metrics, RSS to mail / Twitter / IM, branding, mobile and browser friendly versions, social media flares and splices, tag filtering and more.

Thanks,

Phil Hollows
Founder
FeedBlitz
http://www.feedblitz.com

By: Bas - Serial Expat

Bas - Serial Expat — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 20:52:40 +0000

It’s now 3 years later and still no good alternative…

But Google is messing up Feedburner by just focusing on the Adsense possibilities… while I for one don’t want to spam my subscribers with ads in their feeds.

By: neena

neena — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 01:00:00 +0000

I’ve been using Feedity – http://feedity.com for creating custom RSS feeds from various webpages (including my blogspot blog). They have basic feed stats as well.

By: How to assemble a Feedburner alternative using Wordpress plugins by Samir | Digital Storme | Life On The Web

Sat, 14 Jul 2007 04:40:51 +0000

[...] of an external service. Not when I can be self sufficient in this. And I’m not the only one who shares that view. More recently, rumours were circulating about the possibility of Google aquiring Feedburner. While [...]

By: How to assemble a Feedburner alternative using Wordpress plugins | SamirBharadwaj.com

Sun, 03 Jun 2007 00:30:11 +0000

[...] My main reason would be that I’m not comfortable with giving up the control and hosting of one of the most crucial parts of my blog, the RSS feed, into the hands of an external service. Not when I can be self sufficient in this. And I’m not the only one who shares that view. More recently, rumours were circulating about the possibility of Google aquiring Feedburner. While this was just more tech news to some, the prospect excited some people due to the possibilities of Adsense being integrated into feeds. As always it also filled others with dread about the growing Google monopoly over online services. I guess if you are one of those people, that would be another reason to find alternatives to the Feedburner service, because yesterday the rumour was confirmed. Google has indeed acquired Feedburner for an undisclosed amount, and now everyone is talking about it. For me, however, the main impetus is that it’s a challenge, and I love trying to solve these little technical conundrums. [...]

By: Jody

Jody — Thu, 28 Dec 2006 04:25:07 +0000

For my two podcasts:

http://lawithkids.com

and

http://childrensbookradio.com

I use Webpasties. Much simpler to use the feedburner.

By: Konstantinos Christidis

Konstantinos Christidis — Tue, 18 Jul 2006 12:12:13 +0000

Baruch: what lock-in?

Have you read their take on it?

It’s very easy to change services, if you want to.

By: Baruch

Baruch — Thu, 13 Jul 2006 10:55:30 +0000

I wasn’t interested in using FeedBurner to avoid lock-in so I created my own script to analyse the access.log of Apache and generate some information.

It’s rather primitive for now but it does fulfill my needs and it’s also released as Free-Software. You can find it at http://baruch.ev-en.org/proj/feedstater/

By: Aneil Weber

Aneil Weber — Wed, 12 Jul 2006 08:14:34 +0000

Scrivs at it again!

Funny you mention this…something I have been thinking about for awhile as well. I too am surprised that no one has taken the plunge, I’d say it’s a matter of time, but thats too obvious at this point :-)

By: WD Milner

WD Milner — Wed, 12 Jul 2006 01:37:12 +0000

If Mint is a problem, you might try SlimStat. It is a free packages that offers much the same features as Mint.

Alexa is a bit problematic to my thinking considering their stats and rankings are primarily geared to data collected by the Alexa toolbar and as such only those who actually use it provide the core of Alexa’s data. I’d bet that’s a small sample. Now if you could combine that with data from Google’s toolbar . . .