The New Bloglines Web Services by Marc Hedlund
09/28/2004,
O’Reilly Network.
This article is pretty technical, but includes several
important bits of news of interest to everyone who
is interested in blogs, RSS, and Web Services.
- Bloglines is an online aggregator that provides a wonderful, free service for folks who read blogs. They aggregate blog posts for you. You set up a free account and then use a web browser from any machine anywhere to see the news you want, the way you want it. No news reader required. Nothing difficult to do to synchronize your news reading at home and office.
- Bloglines also has announce an API so that developers can write programs to query the Bloglines database. This means we’ll start seeing new applications that provide news in new and interesting ways. As the article notes,
Bloglines maintains a database of RSS feeds in the same way Google maintains a database of web pages. - All this is possible because of Web Services which will do for the Web what the Web did for the Internet.
Already some of the folks who create news-reader software are on board
and will make their software work with this service, according to the
announcement at Bloglines. This means it will be easier than ever for you to keep up with news at home and office.
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