Bloglines
Encyclopedia
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. In 2005, it hosted more than 200 million searchable blog articles. 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.
Ask.com announced that Bloglines would be shut down effective November 15, 2010. However, on November 4th, 2010 on-line marketing company MerchantCircle
announced that it would assume control of Bloglines.
Web syndication
Web syndication is a form of syndication in which website material is made available to multiple other sites. Most commonly, web syndication refers to making web feeds available from a site in order to provide other people with a summary or update of the website's recently added content...
feeds using the RSS
RSS
-Mathematics:* Root-sum-square, the square root of the sum of the squares of the elements of a data set* Residual sum of squares in statistics-Technology:* RSS , "Really Simple Syndication" or "Rich Site Summary", a family of web feed formats...
and Atom
Atom (standard)
The name Atom applies to a pair of related standards. The Atom Syndication Format is an XML language used for web feeds, while the Atom Publishing Protocol is a simple HTTP-based protocol for creating and updating web resources.Web feeds allow software programs to check for updates published on a...
formats. Mark Fletcher
Mark Fletcher
Mark Fletcher was the founder and CEO of the news aggregator website, Bloglines, and a Vice President of Ask.com until June 2006. Ask Jeeves acquired Bloglines on 8 February 2005....
, former CEO of ONElist
Onelist
ONElist was a free mailing list service created by Mark Fletcher in August 1997. In November 1999 ONElist merged with eGroups. In June 2000 eGroups was purchased by Yahoo!....
, founded the site in June 2003 and sold it in February 2005 to Ask.com
Ask.com
Ask is a Q&A focused search engine founded in 1996 by Garrett Gruener and David Warthen in Berkeley, California. The original software was implemented by Gary Chevsky from his own design. Warthen, Chevsky, Justin Grant, and others built the early AskJeeves.com website around that core engine...
/InterActiveCorp. In 2005, it hosted more than 200 million searchable blog articles. On July 23, 2007, Bloglines released an iPhone
IPhone
The iPhone is a line of Internet and multimedia-enabled smartphones marketed by Apple Inc. The first iPhone was unveiled by Steve Jobs, then CEO of Apple, on January 9, 2007, and released on June 29, 2007...
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
Drag-and-drop
In computer graphical user interfaces, drag-and-drop is the action of selecting a virtual object by "grabbing" it and dragging it to a different location or onto another virtual object...
feeds in the feed tree and a customizable start page.
Bloglines offers an application programming interface
Application programming interface
An application programming interface is a source code based specification intended to be used as an interface by software components to communicate with each other...
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.
Ask.com announced that Bloglines would be shut down effective November 15, 2010. However, on November 4th, 2010 on-line marketing company MerchantCircle
MerchantCircle
MerchantCircle is a Mountain View, California-based start-up company which helps small businesses network with other local businesses and reach local customers through free marketing tools and social media features. Former CEO Ben T. Smith, IV co-founded the company in 2005...
announced that it would assume control of Bloglines.
Awards
- Included in Time Magazine's Top 50 Web Sites for 2004
- Voted Best Blog/Feed Search Engine by the Search Engine Watch Awards in 2005
- BusinessWeek's Best of the New Web