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Bloglines Shutdown Avoided

Posted by samzenpus on from the safe-for-now dept.

angry tapir writes "Pioneer RSS feed manager Bloglines will continue operating thanks to a last-minute agreement for MerchantCircle to take over operation of the service from Ask.com. Ask.com, which announced it would shut down Bloglines by Oct. 1 and then postponed the closure several times, said that MerchantCircle, an online network for local business owners, will manage Bloglines starting in December."

24 comments

  1. Thank god for that by $RANDOMLUSER · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    There aren't enough blog sites.

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    No folly is more costly than the folly of intolerant idealism. - Winston Churchill
    1. Re:Thank god for that by mr_mischief · · Score: 1

      Just think: the raving madness and blatant inaccuracies of Bloglines now brought to you by the folks who bring you the raving madness and blatant inaccuracies at MerchantCircle!

    2. Re:Thank god for that by Shmoe · · Score: 3, Informative

      Never mind the fact that bloglines is an rss aggregator much like google reader. How bout some rtfa'ing up in this piece?

    3. Re:Thank god for that by Jurily · · Score: 2, Funny

      How bout some rtfa'ing up in this piece?

      You must be new here.

    4. Re:Thank god for that by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      And Merchantcircle.com is pure scum...anyone remember their massive phone spam campaigns? They'd call businesses and say that a negative review was posted to generate traffic. Then when enough people complained, they changed their ways...by robocalling to say that a positive review was posted!! The arseholes did it for years (literally).

      And forget about trying to get your company delisted from the site. I tried at least 8 times to no avail. They can't die quick enough in my book.

      http://www.google.com/search?client=ubuntu&channel=fs&q=merchantcircle+phone+spam&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8

    5. Re:Thank god for that by Shmoe · · Score: 1

      I've always been more of a lurker, but if you'd like to get into a uid war -- let's rumble :)

    6. Re:Thank god for that by davester666 · · Score: 1

      So you're not new. You're obviously just a slow learner...

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  2. Re:One mans truth is another mans lies by $RANDOMLUSER · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Oh for Christ's sake. A website going out of business for lack of income is hardly evidence of "them" censoring or oppressing you. The world does not owe you a forum in perpetuity for your rambling musings. If they're actually interesting, someone will keep them alive. 99.999% of all blogs are egotistical bullshit, They just have a larger vocabulary (and LOTS and LOTS more words) than your average tweet.

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    No folly is more costly than the folly of intolerant idealism. - Winston Churchill
  3. MerchantsCircle, eh? by ThatsNotPudding · · Score: 1

    Note to self: delete Bloglines account before the data harvest begins.

    1. Re:MerchantsCircle, eh? by alen · · Score: 1

      just use Google, they won't harvest your data

    2. Re:MerchantsCircle, eh? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      MerchantsCircle probably wants the press and goodwill more than anything. And
      secondarily the eyeballs. The data for a failing service (= pretty low userbase I'm
      guessing) probably isn't worth much at all.

  4. Re:One mans truth is another mans lies by drinkypoo · · Score: 1

    YHBT.

    HTH, HAND.

    With that said: if you want a perpetual forum for rambling musings, there is web hosting. It comes with a bill, but it's like eight bucks a month and it has so many uses.

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  5. Re:One mans truth is another mans lies by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Lol, time to up your meds, AC.

    >Who gives a damn about those who come (are born) after you and all the information
    > they should have a right to sift through just like you did.

    Yeah, they're really gonna miss all that mindless self-centered drivel and those pictures of random people and their cats. It's like a vital part of history is being erased!

  6. Too Little, Too Late by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Of course, the problem here is that once I heard they were shutting down, I found a new RSS feed reader. And guess what? I'm not switching back. And I'm pretty confident I'm not alone on this one.

  7. Re:One mans truth is another mans lies by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    A website going out of business for lack of income is hardly evidence of "them" censoring or oppressing you.

    Oh yeah? Then who exactly is censoring or oppressing me? It's certainly not "us". Therefore it has to be "them"!

  8. to big to fail! by Combatso · · Score: 1

    Thank god bloglines remains.. there were 10's of dollars at stake

  9. Too late - I switched to my own aggregator by Call+Me+Black+Cloud · · Score: 1


    When Bloglines first annouced the shutdown I looked for a good replacment (didn't like Google Reader) and found an open source solution. I installed Tiny Tiny RSS on a shared hosting account and it's as good as Bloglines, better, actually because the uptime is greater. http://tt-rss.org/redmine/

  10. Too late - I switched to Google Reader by danheretic · · Score: 1

    Out of laziness I switched to Google Reader. Now out of laziness I don't feel like switching back. I'll bet most people are in this boat (switched already.) So much for a last-minute save for Bloglines.

    1. Re:Too late - I switched to Google Reader by Perky_Goth · · Score: 1

      Pretty much. Especially with Bloglines problems at updating feeds.