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think feedburner
by zackattack 16y ago
think feedburner
- hugh3 16y agoI still don't know what that is. It seems like every time I stop paying attention for a week somebody has invented a new verb.
- steveklabnik 16y agoI've heard of Feedburner (and had an account for a few years), and I didn't make the association. It's not just you.
- hugh3 16y ago... and yet you still won't tell me what it means?
- steveklabnik 16y agoSorry. Basically, FeedBurner was a startup that was acquired by Google that lets you input an RSS feed, and they produce another feed. You keep the original one secret, hand out theirs, and you get analytics and other features. Compare http://watch.steveklabnik.com/posts.rss http://watch.steveklabnik.com/posts.rss to http://feeds.feedburner.com/watch_steve_episodes http://feeds.feedburner.com/watch_steve_episodes to get an idea. They called this 'burning' a feed. I guess this is what they're alluding to; give me your media file, and I'll turn that into a torrent.
- gojomo 16y agoI thought feedburner's connotation was making a feed burn more brightly. I think burnbit is playing more off 'burning a CD/DVD'. I hadn't heard 'burn' used as a synonym for 'torrentize' before.
- seldo 16y agoI had exactly the same issue with Feedburner's name.