Feeddigest Angel Round

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Congrats to Peter Cooper - I'm a big believer that what Feeddigest is doing along with Nivi's feed splicing, and some Burton Pinging, with feedburner of course, is just the start : Where the search engine optimisation industry was in mid 90's. I also think its very astute angel investing (if it can obtain #2 position to feedburner even a discounted valuation would probably work) : price/deal dependent of course : "On average, we've been adding about 50 new customers to the service each day in spite of a limited operating budget supported by donations from our customers," said FeedDigest's founder, Peter Cooper. "In less than 12 months since our initial launch, we have over 13,000 clients who rely on our service to have fresh, relevant content delivered to their Web site automatically 24/7. With this investment, we intend to provide a world-class, supported RSS content publishing service to a mainstream audience." In spite of the incredible power of RSS as a persistent framework for updated content, NetRatings recently reported that 66 percent of respondents in a recent survey either do not understand the technology or have never heard of it. "We're bringing the concept of feeds and content syndication up to date and turning it into a user-friendly experience so that webmasters and media patrons outside of the tiny world of RSS can get the most out of this amazing technology. We're attempting to break RSS out of a tech-only audience, something few other technology provider are trying to do," said Mr. Cooper. The angel funding comes from a small fund called Curious Office, led by two Seattle-based technology investors, Kelly Smith and Adrian Hanauer."