14 DAY TRIAL // The recently-confirmed FeedBurner acquisition is somehow scary for the current customers of the feed company because the search giant starts taking over the firm. Although it wasn't announced the date for the migration to Google, it seems like the Mountain View company is now planning to move the FeedBurner clients to Google since June 15. According to Shoe Money, an interesting notification appeared just at the FeedBurner log-in system.
"Service of FeedBurner publisher accounts will not be interrupted as a result of the acquisition by Google. You will have a 14-day interim period ending June 15, 2007 to opt-out of allowing Google to service your account. If you take no action by June 15, 2007, the rights to your data will transfer from FeedBurner to Google. Opting out will terminate your user agreement with FeedBurner, permanently delete your FeedBurner account, feeds, and all related statistical data and history, and prevent the transfer of your data rights to Google," the notification message said according to Shoe Money.
Rick Klau Former VP of FeedBurner, an upcoming Google employee, replied to the message, sustaining that their intention was to inform users about the migration of the feed services to the Mountain View firm. "Didn't intend for it to sound scary, we were going more for clarity and no ambiguity. And as a (non-practicing) lawyer, I can tell you that loosy-goosey isn't a popular class in law school," he said.
Please keep in mind that the users who don't agree with the migration to the Google services, are removed from the database as FeedBurner will become 100 percent a search giant trademark. However, you should accept it because the Mountain View company will surely improve the quality of the services. "We felt it best to give everyone a period of time to decide whether that's what they wanted, rather than make it immediate on the day the acquisition closed," the Google employee also mentioned.