Bloglines

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Bloglines
Bloglines logo.
Bloglines screenshot.png
Bloglines feed view
URL bloglines.com
Type of site RSS aggregator
Registration Required, Free
Owner MerchantCircle
Created by Mark Fletcher
Launched June 2003

Bloglines is a web-based news aggregator for reading syndicated feeds using the RSS and Atom formats. Mark Fletcher, former CEO of ONElist, founded the site in June 2003 and sold it in February 2005 to Ask.com/InterActiveCorp.[1][2] In 2005, it hosted more than 200 million searchable blog articles.[2] On July 23, 2007, Bloglines released an iPhone version of their site. On August 27, 2007 the company released a public beta version of their site, with new features such as drag-and-drop feeds in the feed tree and a customizable start page.

Bloglines offers an application programming interface that can be used to write software that can read feeds, search its database of feed entries, and ping the service when a blog has been updated.[3]

Ask.com announced that Bloglines would be shut down effective November 15, 2010.[4] However, on November 4th, 2010 on-line marketing company MerchantCircle announced that it would assume control of Bloglines.[5]

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[edit] Awards

  • Included in Time Magazine's Top 50 Web Sites for 2004[6]
  • Voted Best Blog/Feed Search Engine by the Search Engine Watch Awards in 2005[7]
  • BusinessWeek's Best of the New Web[8]

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