Google is finishing its absorbtion of FeedBurner at the end of the month, and as part of that, they are requiring those of us who use FeedBurner to tie it to a Google account. There is a poison-pill incentive at the end of the FAQ:
If you don’t tie FeedBurner to a Google account by the end of the month, you will lose your FeedBurner feed.
Besides the Google account tie-in, they’re stripping away Site Stats (because it competes with Google Analytics, which quite frankly sucks) and FeedBurner Network (because it’s too tied to FeedBurner Ad Network, which was dropped for AdSense).
Beyond that, there’s no changes that should be noticable. There are new addresses for feeds so that they’re on Google servers rather than FeedBurner ones, but the current addresses will redirect to the new ones.
I’m looking for an alternative. I can’t use google adsense, won’t use analytics and don’t trust Google as far as I can throw Michael Moore.
I found another another ad server that’s smaller and closer to home. (Driving distance)
I haven’t found a decent replacement for Feedburner yet. Maybe I should creat one. :)
If you create one, let me know.