Bloglines Fixes Google Reader Problems

I’ve been driven nuts by something since October: Ask.com’s Bloglines has been mishandling Google Reader’s shared items Atom feed. I mentioned this two weeks ago, after a Google Reader team member explained to me how Reader’s shared items put out an Atom feed that could be misinterpreted by some RSS readers, due to the way the Atom feed uses the tag.
Well, after a few emails from a guy on the Bloglines team, and at least one time it seemed fixed but wasn’t, I can safely say that Bloglines is now displaying the titles and linking properly in Google Reader feeds. I think it’s really cool that the Bloglines guys rolled out two fixes based on a complaint I made on this blog. It really goes to show that some companies do a great job listening to blogs who discuss their products, and that all […]

Original post by Nathan Weinberg