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Bloglines is a FREE online service that helps you subscribe to and manage
lots of web information, such as news feeds, weblogs and audio.
Bloglines tracks the information you're interested in, retrieves new
stuff as it happens, and organizes everything for you on your own personal
web news page.
Nothing. Zip. Nada. Bloglines is completely free.
With
today's avalanche of information, you really can get anything you want.
We think focus is the key to avoiding information overload -- why sit
still for an hour of TV news if all you care about is the sports update?
Bloglines allows you to be very choosy and only track the things you
are interested in -- then we do all the legwork for you. We find the
latest news, collect it for you, and keep it on your Bloglines page
until you're ready to read it. You log in when you can, from any
computer with a web browser.
The average Bloglines user tracks more than 20 news
feeds. The most
we've ever heard of is 1,400 news feeds. Not everybody has the stamina
for that amount of information. But whether you are a social Bloglines
visitor or a power user, we hear plenty of feedback about how
habit-forming Bloglines is.
Signing up to Bloglines is free and easy. Only an email address and
password are required. Click here to register. Registering with
Bloglines allows you to subscribe to and read your favorite news feeds.
Once you register with Bloglines, a validation email is sent to
you. Reply to that and your account will be validated.
Once you have registered with Bloglines and replied to the confirmation email, click on the Add Content tab at the top of the screen. Then, click on the Import link. The subscription list must be in OPML format.
From the Add Content tab, click the Export on the panel. There will be a link to export your subscriptions
in OPML format.
OPML format is an XML format. For more information on the OPML format, click here.
We’ve update the bloglines users into a new system that will offer a number of new features, including
drag and drop capability and new views for reading your content. These new features should make the reading experience
a more pleasurable one and allow you to do further customizations on organizing content. There are similar views that
match the old bloglines view format for those users that are accustomed to that view. We've partnered with leading partner in the space to
power your RSS Reader and will be continually working together to improve the experience in bloglines.
We’ve made every effort to migrate all of your feeds. In some instances your feed may not have been
migrated over properly. If this is the case, you’ll need to manually migrate these feeds over within the migration
process, using OPML to import/export your feeds or re-adding your subscription manually into the new Bloglines
through the "Add Content" mechanism.
In some instances your feed may not have migrated over correctly. This may have been
due to feeds no longer existing or some incorrect formats that were used originally. If this is the case,
you’ll need to manually migrate these feeds over within the migration process, using OPML to import/export
your feeds or re-adding your subscription manually into the new Bloglines through the "Add Content" mechanism.
Due to the structure of the new system, there are cases where we did not have a one to one mapping of your existing folders within
bloglines over to our new system. Due to this, some of your feeds may be in an Untitled folder. Once you have completed your migration though, you can freely drag
and drop your feeds into one folder or rename these folders accordingly by clicking on the "Edit" link on the folder names.
A Private Page is exclusively for your personal use. No one has access to the Private Page but you.
This is the first page you land on when you click on “confirm my email address”.
A Public Page is viewable to the world at large. Once you have click on “confirm my email address”, you will land on your Private Page. At the top left is the “Create my Public Page” link and where you activate your Public Page.
Create your Public netvibes for:
- Online Profiles
- Photos and videos
- Cool Public Widgets
- Control the design experience: arrange your public page using drag & drop
- Easily add widgets and other content from the ecosystem
- Users can subscribe to your updates
- Users can browse your selection and pick the widgets they want for their page
- Click on “Create my Public Page” at the top left of your Private Page.
- Follow the wizard prompts
- Select a Public name
- Finish
- Your public page has been created at http://www.bloglines.com/public/xyz
- Click “Go to my public page” to edit your public page” message will then appear.
- "Create my Public Page” should now read as “Go to my Public Page”
Go to the log in screen, and there will be a link for the lost password page.
On that page, you will be required to enter the email address that you used
to register with Bloglines. Your password will be emailed to that address.
Clippings has been replaced by a "Read it Later" link that will collect all the articles
that you choose to read later. For those users that migrated over, we apologize, but we were not able
to carry over your existing clippings into the new system, we apologize for the inconvenience.
Unfortunately, during the Bloglines transition from Ask.com to MerchantCircle, we had to
make some tough decisions on features that we would be continuing. Although we would like to keep all the
existing features, there will be features that will no longer be supported.
The Blog section is temporarily unavailable. Unfortunately, during the Bloglines transition
from Ask.com to MerchantCircle, we had to make some tough decisions on features that we would be continuing.
Although we would like to keep all the existing features, there will be features that will no longer be supported.
A specific graphical view of your feeds organized as images from each of the articles you have.
These are just two different base views for viewing your feeds. Widget view will organize all of
your feeds as moveable widgets on a page that can be customized to your needs.
The system will remember whatever was the last view mode that you viewed the page on for any links throughout the site.
You can add a feed by navigating to the "Add Content" button that is on the upper left of the page. Once you have clicked on the button
a new screen will display that will allow you to input the URL of the feed you want added. We'll attempt to locate the feed from the URL and once
found, you will be presented with options of which feed to add. Click on "add" button of the feed you would like added and your new feed will now be
available in your dashboard. You can freely move this feed around to different tabs/folders you have created.
You can remove any feed from your dashboard by clicking on the feed and on the top bar of the feed clicking on the "Edit"
link next to the name of your feed. Once you click on Edit, you will have the ability to "Delete this Feed" from the button on the page. Click on
the button and confirm that the feed will be Deleted, and your feed will be removed.
Can I View Bloglines In Another Language?
The Bloglines website has been translated into several languages besides
English, to allow you to view the site in the language you're most
comfortable in. You can change your language selection by selecting the
language you prefer on the languages page.
No, this feature has been removed as it was not widely used across the system. We apologize for the inconvenience.
No these will all cease to function when the migration is complete. We are working on creating new notifiers available for users shortly.
The bloglines bookmarklet should still work as expected, you will still be able to use this bookmarklet to quickly add feeds into your reader.
Please visit our contact page for
more information. We always appreciate feedback.
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