RSS is dead. Feedburner Founder goes to Twitter


	RSS is dead. Feedburner Founder goes to Twitter

mobilediner

9-2-2009 3:50 PM

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feedburner, twitter

mobilediner says:

this is big news... on a related note, the TechCrunch story also discusses some other senior hires by Twitter...

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