Hello,
We have some exciting news to share about the Bloglines service!
As you may have heard, Ask.com (
http://ask.com/) has entered into an agreement with MerchantCircle (
http://www.merchantcircle.com/) who has agreed to keep Bloglines up and running. Stay tuned over the coming months as MerchantCircle works to improve the Bloglines service by creating a richer and more local user experience.
In the near term, your news feeds and access to the service (with your same password) are still available. You can read more detail about MerchantCircle and its plans for the service at the MerchantCircle blog (
http://www.merchantcircle.com/blog/) and the Ask.com blog (
http://blog.ask.com/)
For now, here's what we want you to know:
. Timing: Ask.com will maintain the current Bloglines service as is until December 1, 2010. After December 1, 2010, the service will transition wholly to MerchantCircle. During the month of December, you will be able to easily port your feeds over to the MerchantCircle-powered service. It's an easy process, and we.ll provide you with complete instructions well in advance.
. Logging-In: You will keep your same password as before.
. Current Bloglines features: Your Bloglines subscriptions will seamlessly transition to the MerchantCircle service, however, the Clippings Tab will no longer be available and you will not be able to transport saved articles to the new service. We're very sorry for any inconvenience this will cause; the infrastructure requirements and costs are simply too great to justify maintaining this type of archiving feature.
We hope you're as excited as we are that Bloglines will live on. Please send any questions to bloglines@merchantcircle.com -- we are listening! However, we ask for your patience with response times during this transition. In the meantime, please check back at www.bloglines.com for updates and, coming soon, a new FAQ page.
Sincerely,
The Bloglines / Ask.com Team
