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Ask.com To Shut Down Bloglines
angry tapir writes "Bloglines, the venerable RSS reader, will cease to exist in a few weeks, according to its owner, Ask.com. Users should export their syndicated feeds to another RSS reader, as Bloglines will be shut down on Oct. 1, Ask.com said Friday in a blog post. Ask.com has posted instructions on the Bloglines home page for exporting feeds to another RSS management service."
Muh dick
This is just the first of a long line of sites that are going to shut down in the next year or so. In the last six months I have seen the addition of some of the most in your face adds from companys that I would not buy from for any amount of savings. The Internet is going to go through a major change like it did about ten years ago, but this time I think it is going to be just madding to users . Just here in the last few months the cable company we have has moved high speed users over to a single pipe, this is for a large City and the surrounding area and towns. But the price has stayed the same for much less service. They have halved the size of the space that they sell without warning and are upping the price. This is what happens when you let one company get a solid lock on an area. One good thing about this is a whole lot of what I call fly by night sites and video sites will go away. One can only hope that in the end it will get better for all the users. But if we do not stick together they the company's will just have there way with us.
Maybe because yahoo groups being a gigantic cluster-fuck is hardly news to anyone whose ever used them?
Seriously, what are you talking about?
This Yahoo press release is contradictory and will undoubtably anger many a Slashdot reader.
Dear mods,
The parent post should have a better score than this one.
Oh, and Apple sucks ass.
Kthxbye
Daveime
I had the same story, until Google started asking for my mobile phone number as verification to link to my Google account. IMO, this is over the edge, as in this country you have to use your real identity to get a mobile number.
Well Google ask the rest of us for no such thing so maybe that is something that is legally required of them by your countries government.
Except search and maps, I self host everything (email, websites, Jabber, RSS reader, calendar, etc.) on a dedicated server. There's a small price to pay, but as an example, I have the same email address for the last 10 years. I have all my emails for the last 10 years. There's no worry about privacy. As a programmer, it's useful to run irssi from it under screen, host my own websites, pretty much run anything network oriented..
They better be damn secure as it sound like the place you live would certainly try hacking them. It may also be that by running these services you actually make yourself look like a target to you obviously fairly paranoid government. Is the server physically hosted outside your nation or in your basement as well to be sure the government can't just ask the ISP for physical access?
It sounds like you live in a pretty harsh place privacy wise, did you ever consider moving to the free world instead of blaming Google for following your countries somewhat harsh laws?
On another note why the hell is your country so paranoid? Even forcing people to use the real identity when they buy a mobile sounds a little harsh. Is there an active terrorist organisation trying to overthrow the government or is it just general government paranoia about not getting elected?
I dont read