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on friday we announced the first major update to our “headline animator” service. our old offering had one truly ugly “style” and a more recently added very simple, but cool email signature version.

now, publishers can create their own feed-powered animated gif -> any size with any background image.

in essence, publishers can pretty easily (we’re going to make it very easy in future versions) create branded “live” widgets that are just animated gifs powered by feeds. publishers have complete control over the look and feel - i.,e can use any background image (with or without any mention of feedburner), display the feed title (or not), & display the date (or not)…

so, pubs can make IAB size images and all sorts of little badges that can be used to cross-promote network properties or allow other publishers to virally distribute them via myspace, etc…

here’s an example - yeah, i need photoshop help and a better picture…

↑ get the code

check out steve’s hl animators…

finally, john’s is quite pretty… :)

this is a simple product, but incredibly powerful…

so, now feedburner publishers can create a bunch of different web widgets:
- branded animated gifs (headline animator)
- headlines and full content via javascript (buzzboost, grazr, bitty)
- branded flash objects (via our partnership with FIM (SpringWidgets))

much much more to come soon :)

update: steve pointed to a very cool skin…and, in french…

note: one of the most important upgrades will be to allow multiple versions per feed…

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