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I’ve been using Bloglines Mobile (image top, left) in Opera Mini for over five years\u00a0 to keep up with over one hundred mobile bloggers and forums.\u00a0 It was an awesome combination, I could read my 170+ feed subscriptions<\/a> with it in Opera Mini on a 2G feature phone faster than I could with Google Reader on the desktop. Plus, Opera Mini let me save\u00a0 all my unread items as a single page for off-line reading.<\/p>\n
Bloglines has been dying a slow death ever since IAC bought it in 2005. Earlier this year IAC announced that they were going to shut down the service in September.\u00a0 After a couple extensions of the deadline Bloglines was\u00a0 “saved” when Merchant Circle<\/a> , a social network for small businesses, acquired the brand.\u00a0 Initially we were told that nothing would change under the new ownership.\u00a0 Then early in December Merchant Circle let it be known that\u00a0 Mobile Bloglines, the only part of the service I used, was not going to be retained and that users would need\u00a0 to migrate their feeds from the “old” to the “new” Bloglines.<\/p>\n
I’ve switched to using the Google Reader Wii channel in Opera Mini Mobile View hack<\/a> (image top, right) that I wrote about when the closure of Bloglines was first announced.\u00a0 It’s not perfect, formatting is ugly and it’s too easy to accidentally activate a link scrolling the list.\u00a0 Plus, Reader will paginate the item list if there are more than 50 items and loading subsequent pages of items seems unreliable in Opera Mini.<\/p>\n
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I’ve been using Bloglines Mobile (image top, left) in Opera Mini for over five years\u00a0 to keep up with over one hundred mobile bloggers and forums.\u00a0 It was an awesome combination, I could read my 170+ feed subscriptions with it in Opera Mini on a 2G feature phone faster than I could with Google Reader on the desktop. Plus, Opera Mini let me save\u00a0 all my unread items as a single page for off-line reading. Bloglines has been dying a … Continue reading