April 25, 2008
Movin' on up
There are strange things afoot! (Well, perhaps not "strange," and certainly not just at the Circle K.) In the coming weeks, upon visiting www.feedburner.com, selected publishers will have the opportunity to sign in using their Google Account and experience FeedBurner, now as part of the Google.
If you are among these merry few who migrate early you won't see many changes at first. In fact, you might find yourself saying, "my, it's awfully quiet in here. Almost…too quiet." (But it may look a bit Googlier around the edges.) Your feeds should continue to hum along as they did before, and all of your settings will be yours to manage through your new or existing Google account. This is the same shiny Google account you use to sign into other services at Google.
Following on the footsteps of this account migration, FeedBurner will start to look and feel more like a set of Google services, and we will be completing much tighter integration into other Google services such as Google AdSense. (If you are a feed advertiser, don't worry: we have some happy surprises coming for you as well, and if you are an advertiser who is not yet a feed advertiser, you too shall be blessed with good fortune.)
As part of this Google Account migration, we will need to make a few process changes for our API partners. Effective immediately, the FeedBurner Management API will only be available for existing FeedBurner partners and those Google partners who currently have access to other Google AdSense APIs. The Awareness API will continue to work exactly as it did before, noting that once you migrate to a Google account, you will have to use your Google account credentials IF you use the authenticated API.
If, going forward, you do not want to sign in with a Google account, you can always take your feeds with you by redirecting your subscribers back to your source. Migration will ultimately be here for everybody, including all you MyBrand folks who are master of your domain.
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Is these process changes affect the feeds ?
Right after you published this post, all my Netvibes susbscribers disappeared from my stats...
Hi, i have a google account and a feedburner account, can i migrate my feedburner account to google account?
thanks.
I have 2 FeedBurner accounts, one for my personal sites and one for work sites. I have one Google Account and prefer to keep it that way (because when I jump account to account in one service, it affects my next login on another service...like getting the default iGoogle or Google Reader pages).
How is that going to work? Do have to bring my FeedBurner accounts together?
@Judi - You will either need to bring them together using our feed transfer service ( see http://blogs.feedburner.com/feedburner/archives/2008/03/from_the_dept_of_quick_hits_tr_1.php ) and migrate them to your one Google account or migrate each FeedBurner account to a separate Google account.
@Merrill - this would have nothing to do with your Netvibe subscriber numbers - I'd suggest searching our Help Center for known issues here: http://www.google.com/support/feedburner/bin/search.py?query=netvibes&ctx=en%3Asearchbox&Action.Search=Search
@DeTToX: Yes. You will soon be able to migrate directly from FeedBurner to a new (or existing) Google account. Just to clarify: once you migrate to a Google account, the old FeedBurner account will no longer be usable (or necessary).
Looking forward to moving log info over to my Google account, everything else is already there, why not FB too. I doubt I will be among the beta testers but it would be nice.
@Steve Olechowski: What do you mean by a closer integration with Adsense?
Do you mean that we are finally going to see AdSense within feedburner feeds?
~Darnell
I have been waiting SO long to put ads on my feed, I can't wait for this :)
One less username to remember ? I have feedburner account and google account too. Can i merge them ?
I hope it won't change my feed urls :) Do i need to do anything to unify feedburner and google account ?
That's Great!
How about geographic targeting and context?
How long do you think it will take until integration with Google Accounts is available to all publishers?
We will talk more about advertising soon; stay tuned.
@Matt - as soon as possible :)
Do you mean that my feedburner feed will show AdSense stuff even if I don't want? Please clarify because if you force advertising junk in my feed I'm going to delete my account.
@Carlo - as always, every service you apply to your feed will be your choice. This service has always been about giving the publisher control of their content, allowing them to better understand their audience, and then monetizing their content if they choose to do so.
We have no plans to force publishers to monetize if they do not want to.
ok。。。。 very good、
I'm hoping this gets AdSense working. I've been anxiously awaiting that feature functioning.
Steve,
I'm new publisher on FeedBurner ... but i don't see any FAN ads on my feeds ?
did you stop this ads because of integration with google adsense ?
and when this integration happens .. does it will be for all publishers ? or selected publishers only ?
i hope you will replay
I have seen Feeds with Google Ads associated to individual items of the feeds.Does Feedburner supports all formats(image Ads,video Ads etc) of Ads in the Feeds items?
