The IAC owned Bloglines has announced a number of new and intended features today. OpenID for Bloglines accounts joins with a new version of Bloglines Mobile beta and new personalization features as being available immediately.
Perhaps more interesting from a particular perspective is Bloglines’ intention to provide support for oAuth (Open Authentication) and APML (Attention Profiling Mark-up Language). In laymen’s terms Bloglines will allow users to take control of their Attention Profiles.
Bloglines has lost momentum over the last 12-24 months as Google’s excellent Google Reader service has taken the market lead according to some reports. A new Bloglines version was launched in August and todays announcement would seem to be part of Bloglines strategy of dealing itself back into the attention stream of the RSS reading public.
(thanks to Chris Saad for the tip)
This is a great move by Bloglines/IAC/Ask in general and Eric their new GM specifically. As I have said on our post, he is shaking up the status quo and really understands the need for user rights and open formats. The evolution of the News Reader has started.
Well done to Eric and his team for these great moves.
Still nothing can beat Google Reader
finally someone is addressing security; others just talk
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Thanks for covering that Duncan, we’re gonna make Bloglines rock. Just you wait.
Bjorn Tipling
Bloglines Engineer
awesome news. now i can recommend bloglines over google reader again
difficult to get out of google reader addiction!!
I am currently running bloglines (my usual reader) side by side with greader because I am thinking about switching. I’ve been very underwhelmed by Google Reader in the past despite what all the fanboys say. The improvements Google has made to their product seemed to have caught it up to bloglines however, so I thought I’d give them both a spin. So far, it’s a very close match in my opinion.
This new development will certainly be a factor in my decision.
I prefer Bloglines to GoogleReader.
Bloglines is nice and all, but without OpenID CONSUMER support (logging in to Bloglines from my own website) I don’t see any reason to switch.