Bloglines is a web-based news aggregator for reading syndicated feeds using the RSS and Atom formats. Mark Fletcher, former CEO of ONElist, founded the site in June 2003 and sold it in February 2005 to Ask.com/InterActiveCorp.^[1][2] In 2005, it hosted more than 200 million searchable blog articles.^[2] On July 23, 2007, Bloglines released an iPhone version of their site. On August 27, 2007 the company released a public beta version of their site, with new features such as drag-and-drop feeds in the feed tree and a customizable start page.

Bloglines offers an application programming interface that can be used to write software that can read feeds, search its database of feed entries, and ping the service when a blog has been updated.^[3]

Ask.com announced that Bloglines would be shut down effective November 15, 2010.^[4] However, on November 4th, 2010 on-line marketing company MerchantCircle announced that it would assume control of Bloglines.^[5]

Awards[link]

• Included in Time Magazine's Top 50 Web Sites for 2004^[6]
• Voted Best Blog/Feed Search Engine by the Search Engine Watch Awards in 2005^[7]
• BusinessWeek's Best of the New Web^[8]

See also[link]

• List of feed aggregators

References[link]

External links[link]

• Main website
• Beta website
• iPhone website
• MerchantCircle

Mark Fletcher was the founder and CEO of the news aggregator website, Bloglines, and a Vice President of Ask.com until June 2006.^[1] Ask Jeeves acquired Bloglines on 8 February 2005.

In February 2005, Fletcher won one of the annual Rave Awards, presented by Wired magazine. Fellow nominees in the Tech Innovator category were Internet entrepreneur Jimmy Wales, Adam Curry, Bill Healy and Zhang Zuoyi.

Previously, Fletcher started the free mailing list service ONElist. ONElist merged with eGroups, which was later acquired by Yahoo! in June 2000 and is now called Yahoo! Groups. Fletcher was also a software engineer at internet appliance maker Diba, Inc., now owned by Sun Microsystems, and at Pixel, Inc.

Fletcher is an Investor in the following companies One True Media, Plaxo, Techdirt and Wesabe^[2]

Mark obtained a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science from the University of California, San Diego.

Footnotes[link]

External links[link]

• wingedpig.com (Fletcher's weblog)

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