Los Angeles – IAC (NASD: IACI) announced on Friday that it will shutter
Bloglines, an RSS news reader service it acquired in 2005.
"RSS is a means
to an end, not a consumer experience in and of itself," Ask.com president
Doug Leeds wrote on the company’s blog.
"As a result, RSS aggregator usage
has slowed significantly, and Bloglines isn’t the only service to feel the
impact."
PaidContent also noted reports that Ask.com put Bloglines up for
sale unsuccessfully a couple of years ago.
The company is giving users three
weeks to export their existing Bloglines feds to another service.
Related Links:
http://blog.ask.com/2010/09/bloglines-update.html
http://tinyurl.com/27qoytl
(PaidContent)
this sucks! i don’t know what rss aggregator to use now. i prefer an online one like bloglines so i can catch up on my feeds no matter which computer i’m at. i like google as a search engine, but i refuse to use any of their other services.