Bloglines adds package tracking to its service
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Bloglines is just cool. Not only do they allow me to keep track of my feeds regardless on where I happen to be, but now they are offering package tracking to their already outstanding service! Yes, you read this correctly. Bloglines is going to offer package tracking. Wild, huh?
The Bloglines online content-aggregation service plans to let its users track from within its service package-shipping information from FedEx, United Parcel Service of America (UPS) and the U.S. Postal Service, according to a company executive.
This is the first of many types of personalized online information that Bloglines will be able to gather on behalf of its users, said Mark Fletcher, Bloglines’ vice president and general manager. “Bloglines is moving beyond the blog,” he said. For example, Bloglines will be able to collect local weather information and stock prices.
Bloglines’ core service is monitoring the content “feeds” that millions of Web sites distribute using technologies such as RSS (Really Simple Syndication) and Atom. Users decide which feeds they want monitored and Bloglines aggregates the content in users’ Bloglines personal Web pages. [Read the rest]
