Bloglines Debuts First Fully Internationalized Global RSS Service

Bloglines Debuts First Fully Internationalized Global RSS Service

Now Available in Chinese, French, German, Japanese, Portuguese and Spanish

REDWOOD CITY, Calif., Dec. 1 /PRNewswire/ -- Bloglines (www.bloglines.com), the world's most popular free online service for searching, subscribing, publishing and sharing news feeds, blogs and rich web content today unveiled an internationalized web site that allows people who speak Chinese, French, German, Japanese, Portuguese and Spanish to join and navigate the Bloglines service in their native languages. Bloglines is the first RSS service to embrace consumers in multiple languages, extending its reach to more than 500 million web surfers whom comprise 60% 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. With today's launch, Bloglines has internationalized the entire framework of its service, including the home page, navigation screens, and all the help menus and user tips. To navigate Bloglines in one of the new languages, simply click on the language of choice from the Bloglines home page, or go to http://www.bloglines.com/help/languages .

About Bloglines

Bloglines (www.bloglines.com) is a free online service for searching, subscribing, publishing and sharing news feeds and blogs, and was recently named as one of Time Magazine's 50 Coolest Web Sites. The most popular service of its kind, with an index of more than 200 million web articles, Bloglines offers unmatched features for consumers of online news and information, and the people and organizations that publish syndicated web content. Founded by Mark Fletcher, the entrepreneur behind ONElist (now Yahoo!Groups), Bloglines is privately funded and headquartered in Redwood City, Calif.


Source: Bloglines

CONTACT: media, Cathy Thompson of Bloglines, +1-408-738-1395, or
cathyt@bloglines.com

Web site: http://www.bloglines.com/help/languages

Web site: http://www.bloglines.com/


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