20six and Partner API

A while back, we mentioned that we were embarking on a path to flesh out a set of partner API's that would enable us to deliver feed services beyond the borders of our site to third party publishers and other service providers. Today, we're pleased to announce the first of these partnerships. FeedBurner will work with 20six to deliver detailed feed statistics and a new set of syndication capabilities to the 20six blogging community. 20six operates a variety of content publishing properties across Europe for hundreds of thousands of bloggers, including 20six.com, phlog.net and myblog.de.

Across the spectrum of properties, FeedBurner will initially manage in excess of 50,000 active feeds. In addition to automated integration of FeedBurner statistics, FeedBurner will also provide 20six customers with a simple means of adding many of the feed services we currently offer. As we expand our general offerings, the capabilities we offer to the 20six community will expand as well.

We have put significant time and effort designing a robust API for feed integration and management. As we move forward in 2005, we will be opening up a generalized set of these API's in order to make FeedBurner integration more widely and publicly available. We will also expand our existing set of partner API's in order to provide a more flexible integration environment for our business relationships.

We're confident our work with 20six will be a tremendous launch and successful test of our partner API. We look forward to providing the 20six community with an outstanding experience through this new set of services.