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Bloglines

Bloglines feed view
URL	http://www.bloglines.com
Type of site	RSS aggregator
Registration	Required, Free
Owner	Ask.com
Created by	Mark Fletcher
Launched	2003
Current status	Active

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 2003 and sold it in February 2005 to InterActiveCorp^[1].

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.

Awards

• Included in Time Magazine's Top 50 Web Sites for 2004^[2]
• Voted Best Blog/Feed Search Engine by the Search Engine Watch Awards in 2005^[3]
• BusinessWeek's Best of the New Web^[4]

See also

• List of feed aggregators

References

External links

• Main website
• Beta website
• iPhone website