From the Bloglines Blog:
Bloglines suffered intermittent service to a set of its users between the times of 10:30 PM PDT August 2 and 12:00 AM PDT August 3rd. The culprit has been identified and fixed. All services are once again operating normally and there is no impact on subscriptions, accounts, or data. We apologize for this inconvenience
Tags: bloglines, feeds, rss, syndication tools
Bloglines is seeking to implement a new Feed Access Control Standard for RSS and ATOM:
As we’ve seen more types of information get syndicated, and as feeds are becoming used for multiple purposes, we’ve been growing concerned about the lack of controls on the distribution of personal data, especially through RSS. For example, you may want to allow your friends and family to subscribe to your blog but you’d prefer your posts not show up in search results.
Along these lines, we recently offered a new way to claim your own feeds and indicate whether you want your feed included or excluded from Blog & Feed search on Ask.com and Bloglines (for more information, read the blog post announcing our Publisher Tools). But this method only solves the issue at Bloglines and Ask.com, and it doesn’t address user-created (as opposed to publisher-created) feeds, like flickr feeds, which can’t be claimed. Clearly, there is a need for an industry-wide solution.
As a result, we are proposing (and have implemented) an RSS and ATOM extension that allows publishers to indicate the distribution restrictions of a feed. Setting the access restriction to ‘deny’ will indicate the feed should not be re-distributed. In Bloglines, we’ll use this to prevent the display of the feed information or posts in search results or any other public venue. If other readers and aggregators use the information in the same way, and publishers of feeds, including services that let users create feeds, implement this standard, we could make significant progress toward making feeds truly safe for non-public information. We think that’s a pretty cool idea.
For technical details and how to participate visit the Bloglines Blog.
Update: Also coverage on Techcrunch
Bloglines has announced some scheduled maintenance coming up on the 2nd August:
Bloglines will be down on Wednesday, August 2nd to upgrade various backend systems. We expect the downtime to start at 9:00PM PDT and last approximately 1 hour.
Tags: bloglines, syndication tools, rss, rss feeds, feedreaders
Newsgator today that delivers podcasts and other content:
NewsGator Technologies, Inc., the leading RSS platform company, today announced a new RSS plug-in for the Yahoo!? Messenger with Voice real-time communications suite. NewsGator for Yahoo! Messenger with Voice allows users to access audio and video podcasts as well as other content from around the Web through an IM interface. Thousands of people have already downloaded the plug-in since its beta release last month.
Plug-ins offer consumers a way to further personalize IM and collaborate with their network of colleagues, family and friends. NewsGator for Yahoo! Messenger with Voice (referred to as “Podcasts & Buzz†on the Yahoo! Messenger Web site) allows users to check out the “Editor’s Choice†podcasts selected by NewsGator editors, or browse through podcasts and news content from different categories including entertainment, sports and technology. Users can also personalize their experience by creating a free NewsGator Online account to select and organize their own feeds, which are then delivered through their NewsGator IM plug-in.
The plugin is available at the Yahoo Messenger plug-in download site
Tags: newsgator, synidcation tools, feed tools, rss tools, yahoo! messenger, yahoo! messenger plugins
Bloglines suffered some downtime today according to their blog:
Bloglines suffered an interruption of service between 2:30am PDT and 4:15am PDT today due to critical hardware failure. Necessary services have been moved onto backup machines and there is no impact to accounts, subscriptions, or data. We apologize for this inconvenience and are working to ensure that this does not happen again.
Bloglines suffered an unplanned outage according to their blog:
Bloglines was unavailable this afternoon for about 30 minutes today, July 27, 2006, starting at 3 PM PDT due to an unplanned power outage. All Bloglines services have returned to normal at the time of this posting.
Tags: bloglines, rss, feeds, syndication
Exciting news from Bloglines for podcast subscribers in that you can now listen to your favourite podcast without ever having to leave to the bloglines page. For all the details check out Bloglines News.
Tags: bloglines, rss, syndication, feeds, podcasts
The RSS management company Feedburner has aquired the blog analytics company Blogbeat. The Feedburner blog explains the reasons for the purchase as:
Long story short, we have acquired Blogbeat. In our quest to provide our publishers with a comprehensive picture of how content is distributed and consumed, we liked the fact that Blogbeat uses the feed to gather additional information about the blog. We have been interested in expanding our combined site/feed view since FeedFlare got going some months ago, and Blogbeat will give us the ability to provide publishers with a more thorough statistics picture.
The acquisition means that Feedburner will be able to fully integrate Blogbeat analytics into their existing RSS analytics tools.
FeedBurner has also provided a FAQs page on the acquisition.
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