With the vast sea of information, opinion and dubious ‘facts’ that form the internet, Bloglines offers a way to read all your favourite sources at a single location.
Based on RSS blog subscriptions and expanded to include news sites, weather and classifieds, Bloglines also allows you to track parcels through UPS, FedEx, the US Postal Service and DHL.
As far as RSS readers go, Bloglines has faced strong competition from both desktop and online applications. With its strong market share and popularity of GMail, Google is by far the strongest competitor and offers the connectivity of GMail’s address book to share interesting items with work colleagues, friends and family.
Through what could be blamed on corporate neglect, in October of 2008 Bloglines faced questions of its imminent end. A disenfranchised user base switched to competitors such as Google Reader.
Bloglines new focus is to utilise mobile internet technologies such as the iPhone.
