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Feedster Gets More Funding
 Feedster has announced a new president, Tyler Goldman, and a new round of funding.
Feedster, Inc., the leader in search and syndication of dynamic content, has announced today that Tyler Goldman will join its Board of Directors and become acting president. Mr. Goldman was previously Senior VP of Corporate & Business Development at Movielink, and founder and CEO of Broadband Sports, Inc. Former president, Chris Redlitz, left to pursue interests in earlier stage companies.
"Feedster is well positioned to expand its leadership in search and syndication." said Mr. Goldman. "With 41 million blogs and feeds being searched dynamically, Feedster provides consumers with the best way to leverage the constant flow of information that is being published on the web. Feedster is well recognized by the technology community as the leading search and syndication engine for dynamic web-published content, including blogs, news and podcasts, and is in the process of expanding this leadership position in newly emerging areas like images and video. As millions of users, publishers and other web-based entities continually generate a vast amount of dynamic content Feedster provides a comprehensive platform to search and syndicate content that is most relevant and timely."
Om Malik says sources put the funding at $1 to $5 million. Hopefully, it will be enough money to make the old Feedster subscribe links work again. Maybe someday they will even update the Feedster 500 again.
Posted on July 14, 2006
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PubSub's CTO Blogs About Corporate Troubles
PubSub CTO Bob Wyman has a candid blog post (via WebProNews.com) about the company's troubles.
Rumors have been flying lately about the demise of PubSub.com. While I've seen quite a bit of exaggeration in various forums, I can't deny that things are not going well for us. Our days are numbered. A recent attempt to execute a merger has been blocked and we've been blocked from raising equity financing that would allow us to continue to pay salaries and pay off our $3 million in debt. Thus, our "doors" will close soon if we can't find someone to pull us out of the current situation. Persons with fast access to cash and a desire for some of the industry's best technology are advised to contact us rapidly...
PubSub.com does have some interesting features. We especially like the community lists which are a great example of how topic oriented alists should be run. PubSub.com may not be the only blog search tool with problems. The WebProNews article also mentions a Jeremy Zawodny post that says Feedster will die in 2006.
Posted on June 16, 2006
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Feedster Gets an Upgrade
Feedster has announced the relaunch of its blog and feed search tool. The search engine has been simplified. You can search all of the feeds or specifiy just blogs, news articles or podcasts. RSS subscription to the feed searches is also provided.
Search functionality has been simplified. If you remember the old site, the landing page was somewhat messy, and search was a bit confusing. We cleaned this up. As for search results, weve adopted the new RSS subscribe button and we've got a better iteration of subscribing to the feed of a search result than the previous site. You will see that it is much clearer how to subscribe.
It does look cleaner and simpler but there are other changes coming that bloggers will have to continue to wait for. The changes to look forward to include advanced search, MyFeedster, feed claiming and simplified indexing. Of interest to bloggers will be what Feedster does with feed claims and inbound links. Here what Feedster says about these items:
Advanced Search - this is coming soon and will include Link Search and FeedFinder.
Simplified Feed Claiming and Icon Uploading - We wanted to make the whole process of working with your feeds and new features as easy as possible. Look for these abilities in the near future. We know that we may have a couple of icons that we didn't transfer over properly, so please let us know and we'll work to resolve it quickly for you.
Simplified Indexing - Another feature we're working on is a better way of ensuring your feed is being properly added and indexed with us.
Feedster will announce these new features on the blog when they are available. The Feedsterites, as they are called at Feedster, also have personal blogs of their own. Here is a list of them: Alan Graham (the Feedsterite who made the post about the new Feedster features), Chris Redlitz, Clay Loveless, Demitrious Kelly, James Gross, Oren Michels, Rachel Boltz and Tony Guntharp.
Posted on February 7, 2006
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Feedster Developing New Citations Feature
Feedster is working on something new for citations that will be out in January, 2006. When you try to track citations like the inbound links to this blog Feedster gives you the following result:
Oops!
Our Chief Scientist is bringing you something new in January!
In an effort to provide the best services possible, Feedster is currently involved in upgrading the programming for this feature. As a result this feature is temporarily unavailable.
If you would like to be alerted when this feature is resumed, please leave your email address and we will contact you when service is once again available.
Feedster's Chief Scientist is Francois Schiettecatte according to the corporate team page which was recently updated on December 28, 2005. Feedster might be adding profiles like Technorati or some other more advanced citations feature. They could also just be trying the increase the accuracy and speed of the citations results -- but the wording "something new" and the exclamation mark suggests otherwise.
Posted on December 30, 2005
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Feedster Starts Feed of the Year Countdown
After recently getting their Top 500 feature caught up Feedster is now running a countdown to the best Feed of the Year.
"As a citizen of the blogosphere, Feedster has always recognized the achievements of independent bloggers and publishers. Our Feed of The Day was created as an opportunity to honor a unique voice or technology from within the din of the web," says Alan Graham, Feedster’s Community Liaison. "We are taking this one step further with our "Feed of The Year" Countdown. During the entire month of December we will recognize some of the best contributors to the blogosphere from our own Feed of The Day list."
The countdown list kicked off today with Tropolism picked as Feed of the Year Finalist #31. The Feed of the Year judges include:
Betsy Richter, formerly chief editor of Excite.com, founding editor of Oregon Live, has her own blog My Whim is Law and is captain of Metroblogging's Portland site, one of 30 in an international network.
Dana Blankenhorn, has 25 years of experience writing about Internet content, and ecommerce strategies and is a member of the Internet Media Assn. Blankenhorn also writes the Dana's Moore's Law blog on Cornate which covers technology.
Russell Shaw is a technology and politics author, journalist, blogger and consultant. Author of seven books, he writes the daily IP Telephony Blog for ZDNet and is a frequent contributor to other tech and news blogs.
The bottom line: there should be some good feeds worth subscribing to being discussed on Feedster this month.
Posted on December 2, 2005
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Feedster Debuts Top 500 Blog List
Feedster has debuted its Feedster 500 List. The top three blogs in the list are Engadget.com, Deviant Art and Boing Boing. Other notables in the list:
The Huffington Post at #12 is ranked above the Drudge Report (#21)
Fark is not ranked high at #100.
Dooce is also ranked low at #143. Dooce is 10th on Technorati's list.
Where's Kottke? Kottke.org, Jason Kottke's blog is ranked 14th on Technorati but does not appear on the Feedster Top 500.
Where's Wil Wheaton's blog, which is ranked 16th on Technorati?
Blogger and documentary film producer Michael Moore made the list at #124.
David Sifry, CEO of blog search competitor Technorati, made the list at #136.
Nick Douglas can grab a button for Blogebrity. Blogebrity sneaks in at the end of the list at #465.
Feedster Top 500 creator J. Scott Johnson, who is also a co-founder and CTO of Feedster, said in a statement that they left out some non-bloggy blogs and plan to change the list up each month.
"We left out professional news sites, aggregation systems, and some fairly static web sites that happened to have feeds but don't "feel bloggy," says Mr. Johnson. "This sort of filtering is a different screen than what we use to categorize news versus blogs in Feedster search and is much more subjective. Our first iteration of this list solves the staleness problems and not-a-blog problems that others have faced."
"We're planning to refresh the Feedster Top 500 each month and will keep its ranking methodology fluid. As the blog world is rapidly changing, we must quickly update our ranking methods to keep up," concludes Mr. Johnson.
The RSS Blog also points to another blog 500 list from Blogrolling called the BlogRolling.com Hot 500.
Posted on August 16, 2005
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