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New Bloglines Beta Available
Bloglines has released a beta version of its popular web-based news aggregator. You can find the beta version at beta.bloglines.com. The old version will continue to be available at www.bloglines.com.
The new Bloglines has an Ajax interface with three seperate views for reading feeds: a quick view (just headlines); a full view that shows the full feed; and a 3-pane view that shows headlines on the top and the full stories below. This is the 3-pane view shown in the screenshot below.
You can also customize a start page that will load your favorite feeds instantly. For more details read this comprehensive post about the Blogline beta from Read/Write Web. Read/Write Web also says more features are coming from Bloglines.
There are more features to come, as Beta Bloglines is iterated on - including new options for saving, sending and sharing posts, as well as building link blogs, managing blog rolls, etc. Also coming soon is upgraded developer APIs. One of the more exciting future features from my point of view will be Personalization Preferences, allowing users to edit a feed or settings.
Some people have been switching away from Bloglines to other readers like NetVibes and Google Reader over the past year or so. The upgrade from Bloglines was long overdue. The new reader should make people some who have left Bloglines consider returning. Barry Schwartz at Search Engine Land says he is "personally strongly considering switching back to Bloglines from Google Reader." ResourceShelf also has an informative post about the upgraded reader.
Posted on August 27, 2007
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Google Reader, MyYaoo, Bloglines, NewsGator and Netvibes Dominating Feed Market
Most publishers found that their RSS subscriber counts jumped a healthy 20-50% earlier this week when Google Reader started reporting subscriber counts. Some feeds did better than others. For example, BloggersBlog.com's feed and a couple of Writers Write, Inc's other feeds with larger subscriber numbers -- Shoppingblog.com, Readersread.com and Traderstrade.com -- all increased by about 10% to 30% while our sister site Writerswrite.com's feed increased by over 11,000 subscribers on a 100%+ jump.
For more Google Reader subscriber number reports from bloggers check these sites: John Chow, Quick Online Tips, Trader Mike, John Battelle, Parent Hacks, Ensight, WebMetricsGuru, PinoyTechBlog, Persistent.info, tbray.org, Lorelle on WordPress, Crazybob and If Jesus Had a Website. The RSS Blog did a small survey (via Inside Google) and Google Reader came out on top. Meanwhile, Andy C has titled his blog post, Resisting the Lure of Google Reader.
Feedburner has released some information (via Techmeme) about feed usage that shows Google Reader has grabbed a considerable percentage of the online RSS reader market.
According to Feedburner MyYahoo is the leading RSS reader for clicks that send readers back to the publisher's website. MyYahoo has 54% of all these clicks. Google was second with 21%; Bloglines third with 11% and Netvibes fouth with 9% of the clicks.
In the number of views Google Reader is dominant with 59% of all the views. You can see this displayed on this chart below from Feedburner.
Feedburner also made some interesting points that the top RSS readers are providing the vast majority of the clicks and views.
The top 4 aggregators as measured by clicks - My Yahoo!, Google Reader/Personalized Homepage, Bloglines and Netvibes - account for 95% of all web aggregator clicks to FeedBurner publisher's content.
The top 4 aggregators as measured by views - Google Reader, Bloglines, NewsGator and Netvibes - account for 98% of all item views recorded.
A post on Read/Write Web also shows some recent RSS feed data (PDF) from Pheedo. According to Pheedo Google Reader is still trailing Newsgator, Bloglines and MyYahoo.
You can find more analysis of Feedburner's Feed Market Report at Blogspotting, CleverClogs, Search Engine Land and Search Engine Watch. If anything the new count from Google Reader gave bloggers an excuse to blog about their RSS subscriber stats. We will see if Google Reader and Netvibes continue to grow from this point on or if Bloglines and Newsgator can fight back.
Posted on February 22, 2007
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Bloglines Still Dominant Web-based RSS Reader
 Data from Hitwise indicates that Bloglines is still the dominate web-based rss reader. Hitwise's data shows that Bloglines still has 13 times the traffic of Google Reader and three times the traffic of Rojo.
The market share of US visits to Bloglines was 3 times greater than Rojo, its nearest competitive web-based feed reader. The chart below shows the traffic trend over the past year for the leading web-based feed readers. You can see that Google Reader has grown lately, but as of the week ending 1/13/07, it had only 1/13 of the market share of visits of Bloglines.
TechCrunch's post about the Hitwise data focuses primarily on Google Reader which is still getting crushed by Bloglines. But the more significant finding of the Hitwise post is not that Bloglines is still the dominant web-based feed reader but that a few popular blogs like Perez Hilton, Huffington Post and Engadget receive more traffic than the entire Bloglines website. As Hitwise's LeeAnn Prescott writes
this data suggests that "the most successful blogs are being consumed in the standard Web 1.0 fashion - by visiting the websites."
Posted on January 19, 2007
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Pluck Closing RSS Reader
 Pluck has closed (thx Read/Write Web) its RSS readers. Pluck users have until 1/5/07 to export any data they want to keep.
All versions of Pluck's RSS readers for Internet Explorer, FireFox and Pluck's web edition will be discontinued on 1/5/2007. The RSS Readers have served our community of end users well for several years, but with Pluck's focus in other business areas, the venerable RSS readers are set to be retired from our product line.
Over the next two months, you will have the opportunity to export your RSS feed subscriptions to other RSS readers of your choosing. Please visit the RSS reader support pages for details on how to export your subscriptions and bookmarks for use in other readers.
You have until 1/5/2007 to export your data, after which our servers will be turned off and your data will be deleted. Note that the Pluck RSS readers are not supported for use on the new releases of IE (version 7) and FireFox (version 2).
For blog publishers it means the Pluck RSS buttons will need to come down. Pluck will be focusing on its other products like BlogBurst and SiteLife. Pluck's SiteLife blog platform provides the technology for The Austin Statemen's Blogs.
Posted on October 28, 2006
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Netvibes Raises $15 Million
Netvibes, which bills itself as a custom made web 2.0 home page solution, has raised $15 million according to a TechCrunch article. Netvibes also acts as an RSS reader and allows you to add multiple feeds and monitor from one or more Netvibes pages. Web services like Netvibes will drive the need for more advertisements in feeds. These kinds of websites make it easy for people to view current blog and website content without visiting the site itself. You can keep up-to-date with Netvibes by following their blog. You can read a Netvibes FAQ here.
Posted on August 14, 2006
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Newsweek Launches RSS Reader Powered by Newsgator
Newsgator is blogging about Newsweek, which has created a private label RSS reader using Newsgator's technology. The news reader, called My Newsweek, can be found here. It is currently in beta testing. The RSS reader opens automatically, with no sign-in procedure, as long as cookies have been accepted by the web surfer. The reader is also preloaded with Newsweek feeds as one would expect.
Yesterday, we announced that Newsweek, one of the country's leading weekly news magazines had launched a privately-branded RSS aggregator through NewsGator Private Label Hosted Solution. The site has been in public beta for several days, and we're seeing a large contingent of their readers using the service on a daily basis. We host private label readers for a number of publishers, media companies, and content providers, and each one has a slightly different twist in terms of the interface they provide to site visitors. Newsweek is no exception. They have a very simple and clean look and feel, and it takes only one a few clicks to add feeds to the personalized reader. There's no sign-up process, an account is created the first time you access the application and if your computer allows cookies, you don't have to sign-in each time you return.
Newsgator's post says also says "watch this space" -- signaling that they will soon be announcing other publishers that have signed on for its private label hosting service. (via Social Software Weblog)
Posted on April 14, 2006
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