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Are you addicted to Bloglines and want to help us continue to innovate? Are you a super smart software engineer or product manager looking for a fast-paced, fun work environment? Bloglines is looking for help as we continue to innovate and lead the news aggregation space. We're looking for a Senior Product Manager, several Software Engineers and several Senior Software Engineers. All jobs are based out of the Los Gatos, Ca office of Ask Jeeves.

Help us realize our vision of being the Internet home page for the 21st Century!

We are pleased to announce our newest feature, package tracking. Now, you can have Bloglines track the status of your UPS, FedEx, and USPS packages. From your My Feeds page, click the Add link in the left pane. Then, click the Package Tracking link in the right pane. From there you can enter tracking numbers for UPS, FedEx, and USPS packages. Also, you can do a search on a specific tracking number. Entering a tracking number will create a subscription in your account that is updated whenever the status of your package changes.

The 5th Annual Search Engine Watch Award winners have just been announced, and Bloglines was named the Best Blog/Feed Search Engine. This is the first year for that category. We're honored and we'd like to thank everyone that voted for us.

For Immediate Release

Bloglines Helps Bridge The Vastness Of Space

News Feed and Blog Reading In The Warrior Tongue

Oakland, CA, Earth -- Stardate: 2005.4.1 -- Bloglines, the world's most popular free online service for searching, subscribing, publishing and sharing news feeds, blogs and rich web content, today opened the doors of its service to audiences beyond our solar system with a new translation in Klingon, the galaxy's fastest-spreading invented language.

"The custom of sharing grand stories of conquest and battle has a long standing history among the Klingon people," said Mark Fletcher, founder of Bloglines. "Blogging is simply an easy way to continue the tradition while stuck in deep space, away from your family. We feel that presenting Bloglines in the Warrior Tongue was long overdue."

Klingon marks the eighth language translation for Bloglines, joining Chinese, English, French, German, Japanese, Portuguese and Spanish. To navigate Bloglines in Klingon, simply select the language from the menu on the left hand side of the Bloglines home page. To find out more about the Klingon language, visit http://www.kli.org/ or check with your local Klingon embassy. Qapla'!

loghDaq ghotpu' rar Bloglines

DaH QonoS ladlaH tlhIngan Hol jatlhlaHbogh ghotpu''e'

Oakland, CA, tera' -- HovpoH: 2005.4.1 -- Bloglines QaQ law' Hoch Qaq puS. DaHjaj tlhIngan HolvaD mughta' QonoSmey bobejmoHlaHbogh Bloglines'e'. nom tlhIngan Hol jatlhchoH ghot law'.

<<tlhIngan nughvaD qun ghaj may' bom tIgh>> jatlh Bloglines chenmoHta'bogh Mark Fletcher. <<HopvIS qorDu'lIj, tIghvetlh taHmoHmeH tlhIngan ngeD neH. tlhIngan Bloglines mughmeH QaQ DaH,>>

BloglinesvaD Hol chorghDIch 'oH tlhIngan Hol'e'. Chinese, English, French, German, Japanese, Portuguese, Spanish je muvta'. tlhIngan Hol leghlu'meH HIDjolevDaq tlhIngan Hol yIwIv! tlhIngan Hol Daghoj DaneHchugh http://www.kli.org/ yIlaD qoj tlhIngan rIvSo' yISuch. Qapla'!

We have corrected several translation issues with the Portuguese version of Bloglines. We are also in the process of reviewing the other languages and will be rolling out improved versions of those over the next couple of weeks. We're always looking for ways to improve the service; if you see any issues with our localized versions, please contact customer support and let us know.

Outdoor wedding in Seattle this weekend? Spring skiing in Tahoe? Or maybe you are wondering weather this is the right weekend to replace your roof? Keep an eye on the weekly forecast with Weather subscriptions. Simply click the 'Add' link from your My Feeds display, and then select the 'Weather' link. You can add a weather forecast by city or by zipcode to get a daily forecast update for the entire week. Forecasts are available in cities throughout the world and, like all of Bloglines, this new feature is localized in the 8 different languages that Bloglines supports. Check out the Ask Jeeves blog today where Robyn DeuPree, the new Product Manager for Bloglines, introduces herself and shares how she's using weather subscription for her upcoming road trip.

You may have noticed the Bloglines Plumber appearing unexpectedly recently, generally in the evenings. That's the web page that we put up when we need to take the Bloglines site down. We try to avoid downtime whenever possible, and when it's necessary, we post advance notice here on the Bloglines blog. Unfortunately, we've recently been experiencing a corruption issue with several of our databases. When that happens, we need to take the site down and fix the database in question. No data is lost, but it does require downtime to fix, which is bad; we're just as addicted to Bloglines as you are. We're feverishly working to track down the problem, and we apologize for the inconvenience.

Bloglines will be down this evening, July 17, 2005, starting at 7PM Pacific time. We will be upgrading one of the backend systems, as part of our continuing efforts to ensure that the Bloglines web site is always quick and responsive, even as we continue to grow rapidly. We expect the downtime to last approximately one hour.

Say you're new to Bloglines and just starting to explore our service. Or maybe you're teaching someone else the ropes. Check out our new Bloglines Quick Pick Subscriptions. Bloglines Quick Picks make it easier than ever to find cool things to subscribe to, with suggestions in 37 categories to suit everybody from Animal Lovers to Wordsmiths. If you believe in the wisdom of crowds, try a few from our daily list of most popular subscriptions. With millions of subscriptions available, there's something at Bloglines for everybody.

And in our team's never-ending quest to justify glamorous foreign offices, we're introducing new translations for two of our favorite places: The Netherlands and Italy. We'll move there for work! Yeah, that's the ticket. After all, Antonio already invited us: http://blog.ask.com/2005/07/a_postcard_from.html -- that's as good as HQ approval, right?

We have discovered a problem with our RSS crawlers that caused many feeds to not be crawled. The issue started yesterday morning after one of the crawler machines crashed. We have fixed the problem, and all feeds should be crawled within the next two hours. We apologize for the problem, and continue to work on improving the Bloglines system.