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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."

13 of 24 comments (clear)

  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: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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  3. 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?

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

    How bout some rtfa'ing up in this piece?

    You must be new here.

  5. 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

  6. 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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  7. to big to fail! by Combatso · · Score: 1

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

  8. 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/

  9. 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.

  10. 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 :)

  11. 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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