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*Hiccup!* (excuse us) 2007-04-04 19:50:25
If you haven't noticed any problems with your Bloglines service over the last 2-3 days, you can stop reading here.
For those of you who MAY have noticed a small hiccup or two, there's a simple reason for it: Some of the new services we rolled out last week have been restarting due to a small glitch in our network protocol.
These hiccups rarely occur and last a very short amount of time--less than one second. Even so, we wanted you to know that we have tracked down the issue and fixed the problem.
We're sorry about the inconvenience and will continue to monitor the situation.
-The Bloglines Team
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Maintenance 2007-03-27 18:45:45
Bloglines will be performing some system upgrades on Thursday, March 29 from 8:00pm-11:00pm PDT. During this time, the site will not be accessible.
We apologize for the inconvenience and hope to be back up to speed shortly.
-The Bloglines Team
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An Update on the Image Wall 2007-02-23 13:00:00
In the week since we launched The Bloglines Image
Wall, it's certainly garnered its fair share of attention. Some of it we expected or hoped for; some if it, quite the opposite. But having listened to all of it, we think a change--and a little explanation on how we came to it--is in order.
Launching and Learning
As we wrote when we launched, we built the Image Wall as a cool, experimental, demonstration of the diversity of visual content that appears in syndicated feeds at any moment in time. Sure some of the images turn out to be awful, but some turn out to be great art and either way you can instantly see the diversity. We found that to be pretty amazing.
Nevertheless, we recognized that the Image Wall, as a reflection of the feeds in Bloglines (and thus a reflection of the Web itself) would not be appropriate for everyone. We took steps to mitigate the potential offensiveness, but still allow for the fascinating diversity to shine through.
Helping Our Audience Protect Read more:Update
Bloglines Image Wall: The Blogosphere Before Your Eyes 2007-02-15 12:15:00
The hard-working engineers at Bloglines
spend most of their time bringing you your favorite blog & feed content... but they've also been known to come up with some cool stuff above and beyond the call of duty. Presenting: The Bloglines Image
Wall .
Here's the deal. Bloglines indexes zillions of pages every hour -- and just as many images. The Bloglines Image Wall picks up these images as they come in and places them into a constantly updated grid.
You'll never see the Wall the same way twice - in fact, it changes right before your eyes. Curious, funny, challenging, good, bad, and ugly - it's all there. The variety alone is fascinating.
It's a great way to see what's happening in the blogosphere at any moment in time. And each image is clickable, taking you to its source blog or feed in Bloglines with a handy subscribe link at the top if you like what you see. The Image Wall is a whole new way to discover new content. It's interesting -- sometimes mesmerizing -- and jus Read more:Blogosphere
We’ve Got Forums! 2007-01-24 15:30:00 Okay, who knew Bloglines had feedback forums? Show of hands. Yep, that’s what we thought. Well, we’ve got ‘em. In fact, we’ve just given them a good solid revamp and hope that you’ll drop by and participate.
Let us know what you like, don’t like, are having difficulty with, what you spilled on your keyboard while checking the Penny Arcade feed… We, and your fellow Bloglines users, are here for you. Check it out. Read more:Forums
Come work for Bloglines 2006-12-08 14:30:00
Attention Blogliners!
If you're reading this, you're already drinking the Bloglines
Kool-Aid. So how about mixing up a few batches with us?
We're looking to add two more incredibly talented people to our Bloglines team: specifically a Bloglines Director and a Senior UI Engineer. Interested - or know someone who might be?
Join and help us make Bloglines THE home page for the 21st Century.
-The Bloglines Team
Maintenance 2006-12-01 15:00:00
Bloglines will be performing some system upgrades on Friday December 1 at 9:00 PDT. During this time, users may experience some degradation in the site. We expect to be finished with out maintenance in 1 hour.
We apologize for the inconvenience and hope to be back up to speed shortly.
-The Bloglines Team
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Personalize Bloglines with Playlists and Glimpse 2006-11-09 22:21:21
You use Bloglines
because it helps you keep track of your favorite blogs and feeds. But what if you have certain feeds you view only in the morning? Certain feeds you look at to cheer you up, or when the boss isn't around? You don't want to re-arrange your whole "My Feeds" listing just for those occasional whims or times of day. That's why Bloglines introduces not one, but two new services to make things easier.
Playlists lets you create short groupings of feeds to access from your main list. Create as many as you like, and use them to personalize your Bloglines experience that much more. Create them, change them, even delete them--all without changing your original "tree" of feeds. What song playlists are to your MP3 library, Bloglines Playlists are to your Bloglines blogs & feeds.
Want a quick look of those Playlists you just created? That's what Glimpse is for. Click on one of your Playlists in your left nav and you'll see the first five posts for every feed in that Playli Read more:Personalize
Maintenance 2006-11-07 17:22:07
Bloglines will be down on Thursday November 9, at 9:00 PM PDT. We will
be making a hardware upgrade and should be down for only 30 minutes. We
apologize for the inconvenience and hope to be up and running ASAP.
-The Bloglines Team
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Network Outage 2006-10-26 18:06:06
Bloglines will be down on Sunday Oct 29 at 7:00 PM PDT. We will be
making changes to our network infrastructure which should take
about 2 hours. We apologize for the inconvenience and hope
to be up and running ASAP.
-The Bloglines Team
Firefox 2.0 gets one-click subscription 2006-10-24 17:55:55 Firefox
2.0
users rejoice! Viewing an RSS-capable
page that you want to subscribe to? Just click on the big orange RSS
button in your Firefox toolbar. You'll be automatically subscribed to it
as a Bloglines feed.
We'd like to take the credit for this handy feature, but it was our
compadres at the Mozilla Foundation who built
this into their fine browser.
Don't forget that we also have the same
one-click subscription available for
Internet Explorer 7!
-The Bloglines Team
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One-click subscription on IE 7 2006-10-18 23:00:00
Here's where having fans over at Microsoft has its benefits, especially for our
users. Now, whenever you view a RSS-capable page on
Microsoft Internet Explorer 7,
you can subscribe to it in Bloglines with a single click.
Just look for the big orange RSS button that appears in your IE 7 toolbar.
Click on it and you're done - you've just subscribed to that feed in your
Bloglines account.
All you need is the new
Bloglines Browser Plug-in.
Thanks to the folks at Microsoft for giving us the opportunity to develop
this time-saving shortcut for you. Prefer a different browser? Watch this
space. Like one-click subscription, you'll barely have to wait.
- The Bloglines Team
Network Outage 2006-10-13 02:45:13
Bloglines was inaccessible for 90 minutes starting at 10:30 PM PDT Thursday,
October 12, 2006 due to a network outage at our Datacenter. All connections are
back up and running at this time.
- The Bloglines Team
The Wizard Behind the Curtains 2006-09-28 23:54:30
You might have noticed a few fancy little changes we've made to your feed tree
on the left pane today. You'll like them even more when you learn what's
behind the scenes!
We no longer update the entire left pane when the unread or "kept as new"
counts change. Now the counts update in place with a fading yellow indicator.
The result is a faster, more pleasant way to
cruise through your feeds, especially for those quick on the hotkeys.
We've decreased the time between automatic updates to your unread counts
so you don't have to press the "r" hotkey quite so often.
We hope you enjoy the changes. As always, if you have any feedback, feel
free to let us know either via our contact form or by
putting up a blog post containing the phrase "bloglines freedbacking".
- The Bloglines Team
Read more:Wizard
, Curtains
DHL package tracking support 2006-09-25 20:40:40
Bloglines is proud to add DHL
to our set of package
trackers.
With our
package tracking subscriptions,
you can follow a package's progress around the world
so you'll know as soon as your package arrives at its destination.
And don't forget to check our
weather tracker
for the latest weather information in your area.
- The Bloglines Team
Bloglines Beta - Now Open to the Public 2007-08-27 01:11:00
Blogliners we're proud to introduce a beta
of our latest redesign of Bloglines
. Our About Beta overview outlines the key
features a personalizable home page, 3 reading-views and drag-and-drop foldering
in an Ajax interface. We're inviting you, the Bloglines fans, to the new
Bloglines beta in the redesign
cycle to provide us feedback. We look forward meeting you in the forums or at
conferences to brainstorm on ways to make Bloglines an even better feed reader.
The current Beta is available for Firefox and IE 7 browsers. Of course, the
full-featured original Bloglines will still
be available during the Beta
period.
Enjoy!
- The Bloglines Team
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Bloggers Cheer Bloglines Beta Release 2007-08-29 22:19:19
Photo Courtesy of StockVault
Wow! We were a little overwhelmed by the positive response our
Beta received earlier in the week.
We expected a few in the tech-set to write reviews, but never imagined the
out-pouring of excitement. I thought I would share some of the high-points.
Read
Write/Web did an exceptionally detailed review and here's a little except,
"Bloglines
has me back as a fan!"
Even the competition likes Blogline Beta. Chris Wetherall of Google Reader
described Bloglines as, "Wicked Cool."
3,000 posts were written across the web. Most of these from Blogliners
excited about the return of Bloglines. I love you Blogliners!
Lots of people were and continue to discuss future releases of Bloglines in
our Forums.
But we also wanted you to know that we heard another message---Don't take too long to release additional features!
We'll be listening to you and announcing additional features going forward.
In fact, our next feature slated for release is "Keep as New."
T Read more:Cheer
, Release
CSS Support for Feeds 2007-09-18 18:19:23 Last night, we released support for publisher defined style-sheets.
This means going forward Bloglines will display publisher created
CSS
(cascading style-sheets) in the main reading views.
Why Do Publishers use CSS?
Most publishers use CSS to ensure content is designed consistently
across browsers. If the publisher uses CSS in their feed, you'll see the
publishers style-sheet.
What does this mean for me?
You'll see the content as the publisher designed it. A good example brought
to our attention is the use of the "float" tag. Many bloggers use this tag to
wrap text around an image. In the past, we wouldn't wrap the text around the
image. Now we do. There are lots of other examples of how the content will
be displayed a little differently. A full list of all of the CSS style
attributes we support is located
here.
For the most part everyone, will benefit because most publishers attempt
to make their feeds readable for feed readers. In addition, we figure
that t Read more:Support
Bloglines Beta 1.0.2 - Listening to Blogliners; Edit Feeds and Folder for Beta 2007-09-13 13:10:10 Over the last couple of weeks, we've been chatting with Blogliners in our
forums, reviewing mailed in feedback and reading your blogs. It's been
fun to see how excited people are about Bloglines
. We aim to keep you
that way.
The latest launch offers up Inline Editing of Feeds and Folder
s. We pushed
it out last night. It looks like we were caught by
Nathan Weinberg.
Here's a quick summary.
Inline Edit Feeds and Folders - You can change the feed or folder title
name and set individual feed/folder settings such as display updated items,
display in Bloglines notifier, display in Bloglines Mobile and of course set
your privacy settings for your feed or folder. See screenshot
below.
You might ask, "What does it mean to set my privacy settings for a feed or
folder?" If you have your settings as public, your feed library is available
to the world. Here's an example of a part of
my feed library so you
can see what I read.
The next set of releases w Read more:Listening
The Latest Construction on Bloglines Beta 1.01. - Pin, Send Email, Help and Hotkeys 2007-09-06 00:00:21
Source cohdra
Last week we launched our beta site
and it looks like many of you noticed.
The overall response was exceptionally favorable, but one topic was lost
in the excitement: the site is still
under construction!
Many people thought we were done. On the other hand, a number of our
classic Blogliners pointed out several of their favorite features missing or
not implemented quite right. Both parties are right. If the beta
currently fulfills your needs, great move right in. If it doesn't
fulfill your needs right now, don't fret, we still have a large number of
features to implement and a few features to refine. Take your time.
We've been listening to our core users and rolled out several features
from Bloglines
Classic which were frequently requested by our Blogliners.
Keep an eye out for these new icons:
Keep as New - retitled "Pin" - This feature temporarily saves a post
in the reading view. It's very useful for when you see a large post,
but d Read more:Construction
, Email
Today's Trifecta! - OpenID Support, Mobile and New Personalization Preferences 2007-10-01 12:30:34 It's been a fast and furious last few weeks as the Bloglines Team has
released four releases in four weeks.
We've released "Pin", "Email Post", inline styles, and now as of today support
for OpenID
. New Personalization Preferences
and Bloglines Beta Mobile
. We went
back and forth about how we should get the word out. Should we post over
several days, make one massive post, or break it up into different posts,
We decided to launch at once and blog at once; we have detailed posts for each
of these releases, in case you want to read more.
OpenID - Bloglines Beta and Bloglines Classic will both support OpenID.
Going forward we'll support consuming OpenID, OpenID 2.0 and are investigating
the use of other Open Standards such as oAuth and APML.
Mobile - Bloglines Beta now has a new version of Bloglines Mobile with
additional features such as the "Start Page", "Pin" and improved browser
support.
New Personalization Preferences - Bloglines Beta has added several
new personalizat Read more:Today
, Support
Bloglines Beta Goes Mobile 2007-10-01 12:30:32 Bloglines
has had a leading mobile feed reader for the last couple of years.
It's always been one of our key product strengths. So we were really excited to
make our mobile product even better. We were busy over the summer re-writing the
mobile code from the ground up. A new version of mobile is available as part of
the Bloglines Beta Releases. Go to
m.beta.bloglines.com on your cell phone.
When we feel it's ready, we'll make it available on Bloglines Classic.
Key Features
Start Page - Your Bloglines Start Page is displayed at the top of the screen.
This way you can pull your favorite feeds to the top.
Pin (formerly known as Keep New) - Sometimes you want to save that special
post to read later when you're not on the go.
Pagination - Instead of loading all of your posts, we parse out the posts
into smaller bundles to fit into the memory constraints of cell phone browser.
This has numerous benefits including improved speed, better reliability and
safer "mark read" be Read more:Mobile
, Goes Mobile
Personalization Preferences 2007-10-01 12:30:31 We've been comparing our fall release cycle to a mad-dash European
tour. If it's Tuesday, it must be Paris. It's Tuesday!
We're probably launching our latest release for Bloglines Beta.
Today's release focuses on the personalization settings to optimize your
feed reading experience. We have a combination of something old, something new,
something borrowed and of course, the site is blue.
Where to go?
Look in the header and you'll see the word "settings." Click on it.
The personalization settings page will appear.
What's New?
Mark Individual Posts as Read - You can now choose between Bloglines
Classic or Bloglines Beta mark read behavior. You can either mark individual
posts as read or mark the entire folder as read. The current default is
to mark individual feeds read. We'll continue to monitor the comments around
this setting closely. We know this is very important to our long-time Blogliners.
In addition, I want to thank those who gave us feedback
commented Read more:Preferences
Bloglines Beta - Even Faster! 2007-11-08 18:16:16
Earlier this week, we released another round of improvements
for Bloglines
Beta:
It's Faster
Most people have commented on how fast the Bloglines Beta is, much
faster than the classic site. However, a web site can never be too fast!
Will, Bjorn and Ben have been reviewing the front-end code looking for
ways to shave time off common actions. Hold onto your seats, you'll
definitely feel the speed improvements especially in QuickView
and 3-Pane View. We hope you relish the time saved not
waiting to download. We are.
Back-button Support
Because sometimes in life, you do need to go backwards to go
forwards. Now you can use the browser's back button like on
standard web sites. Hitting the back button will take you to the
previously loaded screen.
Expandable Start Page Modules
Some feeds just demand more space on your start page. Now you can
change the size of the start page modules with a simple
drag-and-expand of the l
Bloglines Volunteers Wanted! 2007-11-15 18:30:53 Blogliners, we’re looking to meet you face-to-face for some quality time to discuss how you use a feed reader. We’re looking to meet people who are new to feeds and feed readers. We’ve met a lot of people over the past few months at conferences, the forums on the web, etc. And we love meeting our power users, but now we need to find some users who are new feeds and feed readers.
Here are some key questions to determine if your right for our customer research:
New to feeds and Bloglines
in the past year.
Consider yourself a non-techie.
Willing to do some “homework” about 10 minutes a day for a few days.
Have broadband.
Live in the Bay Area - a must.
Willing to meet with our researcher for 90 minutes during the week of 11/29 to 12/7.
Modest compensation will be provided for you time.
Since we know that Bloglines attracts a wide set of people, we want to get a good mix - all ages, home or work users. So we’ve created a short (5 minute) survey to help Read more:Volunteers
Bloglines Top 1000 - “Pitchfork: Today” Blasts Another 790k Ranks 2007-11-14 14:30:53 We were anxiously awaiting the second week of the Bloglines
Top 1000. We had no idea what was in store. To our surprise, we saw what we thought was a bug.
“Pitchfork: Today
” skyrocketed 790,000 ranks. That’s right 790,000 ranks to land at 448. We double-checked the numbers and they are correct. Remember, we have millions of feeds in our database, so it is possible to jump thousands of ranks in one week. However, we will consider new ways to report this.
“Sew, Mama, Sew” continued to move its way up 352 rankings.
Read more:Ranks
Bloglines Experiences Downtime - Team Monitoring Situation 2007-11-14 14:20:14
As many of you might have noticed, yesterday afternoon, the Plumber returned– Bloglines
experienced some downtime. The team has been looking into the situation and has attributed the root cause to multiple machine hardware failure due to human error.
As people who not only work on Bloglines, but use Bloglines, you can be assured that we’re monitoring the situation closely and will put improvements in place to prevent downtime in the future.
- Eric Engleman & the Bloglines Team
Read more:Downtime
Spammer Impersonates The Bloglines Team 2007-11-19 20:08:08
Over the weekend, a few individuals, including some of us who work on Bloglines
, reported receiving Spam from Bloglines. It was a surprise for us and the few other Blogliners who also received the emails. While the total number of emails sent appear to be small less than 1,000, we think it’s serious enough to address because the spammer impersonated official Bloglines correspondence.
The Event
Emails were sent recommending several posts on a Chinese Blog via the “send a post to a friend” feature on Bloglines. The email ended with a signature from “The Bloglines Team.” The emails were not sent by anyone associated with the Bloglines Team.
The Actions Taken
We monitored our logs and suspended the spammer’s IP address restricting their usage of Bloglines. In addition, on Monday 11/19/07, we briefly shut down the “send email” feature on Bloglines to further monitor the situation.
FYI
Bloglines sends out email to our subscribers for purposes specific to operati
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