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Two on this list of Google APIs that are ‘deprecated’ — meaning that they will be shut off in the not-too-distant-future — caught my eye: Feedburner API and Wave API.

Wave has proven to be such a one-eyed goat that Google announced its shutdown back in December 2010.

But this series of events in the history of Feedburner is the sort of thing that makes me scratch my head (via Wikipedia):

On June 3, 2007, FeedBurner was acquired by Google Inc., for a rumored price of $100 million.^[7] One month later, two of their popular “PRO” services (MyBrand and TotalStats) were made free to all users.^[8]

On August 15, 2008, Google completed migration of FeedBurner into its group of services.^{[citation needed]} Publishers who have completed migration will access FeedBurner via feedburner.google.com.

On May 26, 2011, Google announced that the FeedBurner APIs would be deprecated, leaving the long-term availability of an API for FeedBurner uncertain.^[9]

Perhaps there’s no better example of how quickly we have caromed past a social web based on RSS to one based on streams. And there’s Dick Costolo, a founder of Feedburner and now CEO of Twitter, the canary in the coal mine.

(via Chartier)