September 27, 2005
FeedBurner Japan
As FeedBurner becomes more popular, we are increasingly working with global partners to deliver services in specific languages and geographies. RSS adoption is growing particularly fast in Japan, and we will be working with GMO Affiliate in Japan to create FeedBurner.jp and launch an integrated suite of commercial feed management services for Japanese blog and media networks. GMO Affiliate, a Joint Venture between GMO Internet, Inc. and Value Commerce, is itself a major Japanese media company and operates several major blog properties for which we will soon be providing feed management services. yaplog! is one such property that has over 200,000 users who will benefit from all the services we currently provide to publishers around the world.
An integral element of our commercial feed management services in Japan will be our SmartFeed Mobile Server. Mobile RSS consumption in Japan is growing far more quickly than it is in the U.S. FeedBurner's proprietary proxy server makes it simple to write very thin mobile feed readers and provide a consistent user experience across handsets. We expect the SmartFeed Mobile Server to play a very large role in our Japanese language offerings.
We plan to launch FeedBurner.jp this winter, and we are already working closely with GMO to help other media companies and blog networks in Japan realize the benefits of our feed management capabilities. The GMO team shares our enthusiasm for rapid innovation, and we've already learned a lot by working with a company that understands the media landscape in Japan so well.
This partnership further supports our vision to deliver the world's content everywhere it's needed and help publishers get more value from the content they create by expanding subscriber reach, attracting customers, and realizing new revenue streams. In GMO, we have found a partner that has a similar focus and vision, and we can't wait to provide the best possible services to another exciting marketplace. Read more about our announcement in the press release, available in both English and Japanese.
Comments
Since I can't read Japanese since I don't live in Japan, I think I will read your press release in English, I think.
I'm so happy for your cool company, and even my hamster Duckie is happy to, because he is smiling!
Later I will sign up when I'm on my own computer, because if I try to do that now on my dads computer he'll go crazy, which is not a good thing.
I hope you all are having a nice weekend, and keep up the good work, because it is good.
Congratulations from Japan!
I cannot wait.
Keep up the great work,
Any chance of feed translation in the near future?
That WOULD be very sweet, especially into Japanese.
Nice work.
Love the burn!
Hi Tony -
Thanks for the note. We have explored this and continue to evaluate options that can strike a good balance between accuracy and affordability. Stay tuned to our company weblog for news and progress.
RSS is growing - that's great.
