Bloglines launches international RSS feed
7 December 2004
Bloglines, an online service for searching and subscribing to news feeds, blogs and rich web content, has unveiled a new international website.
The new site enables users who speak Chinese, French, German, Japanese, Portuguese and Spanish to join and navigate the Bloglines service in their native languages.
The blog search company claims to be the first RSS service to embrace consumers in multiple languages. The international site opens Bloglines to more than 500 million web surfers, comprising 60 per cent of the world's estimated internet users.
"A significant percentage of RSS feed and blog content in our index of more than 200 million items is published in languages other than English, and that figure is increasing rapidly," said Mark Fletcher, founder and CEO of Bloglines. "We know the conversation building around RSS feeds and blogs is a global one, and we're taking action to make it easy for everyone to discover new voices and new information sources in Bloglines, in their native tongues."
The new language support extends Bloglines' existing preferred language feature and automatic translation tools and the firm has internationalised the entire framework of its service, including the home page, navigation screens, and all the help menus and user tips.
Bloglines was recently named as one of Time Magazine's 50 Coolest Websites. The site has an index of more than 200 million web articles and offers a variety of features for consumers of online news and information. The company, founded by Mark Fletcher, the brains behind ONElist (now Yahoo!Groups), is privately funded and headquartered in Redwood City, California.
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