Long story short; Patrick de Laive and I created a video about a vulnerability in Google’s Feedburner, and put an article on Thenextweb last week, it created a lot of debate and we were quoted on a huge lists of blogs including Techcrunch, Inquisitr and Problogger a chain reaction that generated thousands of views, a very nice ending of my blogging time in Amsterdam. If you haven’t seen the video yet, check it here:

While the hack still works, I am happy to tell you that Google and Netvibes are working on a solution to the problem. Steve Olechowski, co-founder Feedburner mailed me and said: “These things happen occasionally and are usually fixed in a couple of days”, he added that the feedburner counts do not influence advertisement measurement. Franck Mahon from Netvibes said: “We are working on a fix to filter out in the reporting the duplicates while still allowing people to add several instances of the widget to their startpage.” When things get fixed, it would be interesting to see the differences on some sites.

Currently, I changed the stats on my page back to original.

I hope you like that post!

Tags: feedburner, hack, Netvibes