Bloglines - Ask Jeeves has acquired Bloglines

[Drew, Bill]

It will be interesting to see what this does to free blogging.

Bill Drew 

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Ask Jeeves has acquired Bloglines
<http://www.bloglines.com/about/news#76> 


Dear Bloglines Member: 

Ask Jeeves has acquired Bloglines, and we're excited about becoming the
newest member of their portfolio of web services. We view this as a huge
step forward for Bloglines, and a chance to achieve our mission of
making RSS news reading and blogging a part of everyone's internet
experience. You can learn more about the transaction by reading our
press release or reviewing our Frequently Asked Questions. 

We want to assure you that the Bloglines service will continue to grow
and thrive. Like other companies in the Ask Jeeves portfolio, we will
operate as a standalone, separate service -- the Bloglines name will
remain, as will our URL, www.bloglines.com. We will support our current
features and services, so please continue to log in to Bloglines to
search, subscribe, publish and share RSS news feeds and blogs. All users
will continue to be governed by the Terms of Service
<http://www.bloglines.com/about/tos>  you agreed to when you registered
for Bloglines. 

We have a great roadmap on how to integrate some of the many innovative
technologies of Ask Jeeves, including its Teoma algorithmic search
technology. As always, we will share news of our progress on our blog,
Bloglines News <http://www.bloglines.com/about/news> . And we encourage
you to participate in the conversation. Our users have been amazing help
in guiding the evolution of Bloglines, and we hope you will continue to
give us input so we can remain the gold standard in blogging, search,
and news aggregation. 

We understand you may have questions about the acquisition and we'll try
to answer them all as best we can. Please continue to contact our
customer service <http://www.bloglines.com/contact>  with your questions
and comments. 

Thanks for your loyalty, patience, encouragement and feedback throughout
this exciting process. 

All the best, 

Mark Fletcher and the Bloglines Team