Duncan Riley: FeedBlitz takes Angel Investment

Duncan Riley at b5 Media comments on our recent funding news:

Feedblitz, a Web 2.0 startup that converts RSS into email alerts, has announced they’ve take Angel Investment from Tom Evslin...It’s a sound business proposition, because in reality most people still have no idea what RSS is. Best of luck to them.

Read the entire article at http://duncanriley.com/2006/05/31/feedblitz-takes-angel-investment/

TechCrunch: FeedBlitz Raises Angel Round

Michael Arrington, uber-commentator on "Web 2.0" posts about FeedBlitz's funding news:

FeedBlitz, a Blog/RSS to email service, announced an angel round of financing today from Tom Evslin, a previous AT&T and Microsoft executive.

Read the full article at http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/05/30/feedblitz-raises-angel-round

Fractals of Change / Tom Evslin: FeedBlitz

Tom Evslin, FeedBlitz's angel investor and Board member, writes about his investment decision:

Phil’s done a great job with the company so far: almost half a million people use FeedBlitz to get email updates from their favorite blogs and websites. FeedBlitz is the largest service of its kind. I’m looking forward to helping FeedBlitz expand its service to content publishers and to its readership.

Read the entire post at http://blog.tomevslin.com/2006/05/feedblitz.html

MicroPersuasion: Find Feeds with FeedAdvisor

Steve Rubel at MicroPersuausion writes:

FeedAdvisor's power is felt most if you're a subscriber to any FeedBlitz feed. The data is based on pattern matching between your subscriptions and those of your peers. What I like about FeedAdvisor is that it gives you metrics on how many people subscribe to a feed through their service.

Read the full article at http://www.micropersuasion.com/2006/05/find_feeds_with.html