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Bloglines Adds Package Tracking
Posted March 29, 2005 – 9:55 pm by Yakov Shafranovich in TechnologyBlogLines, a very popular web-based RSS aggregator is adding support for package tracking according to this story. Who knows, maybe they were inspired by my XML.com article or the track2rss project.
P.S. I do wonder how they got around the legal issues, most carriers severely restrict the use of their package tracking information.
UPDATE: Bloglines just posted a news item in their own blog. HOWEVER, as I am trying to add the package tracking feeds, I keep getting error messages. I matched the tracking numbers against the data from the carriers and track2rss, and they are fine. There seems to be a problem with BlogLines’s own service.
And of course, the legal issues are still nagging me. If you look carefully into the terms and agreements for most carriers, they are rather strict (which is one reason why I encourage folks to download track2rss). I am not sure how BlogLines got around those issues.
UPDATE #2: After I dropped an email to Mark Fletcher (the CEO of BlogLines) the problem was fixed. It is not often that a CEO of a company replies to you personally on such short notice (impressive enough to add his blog to my blogroll)!
I love startups 
Tags: bloglines, package tracking, rss, track2rss
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2 Responses to “Bloglines Adds Package Tracking”
I was a Bloglines user until I came across Waggr - http://www.waggr.com
I think Waggr is much simpler to use, and has a much quicker interface. I highly recommend it.
By Gei on Apr 29, 2005
But does it have a mobile section as well viewable on a Palm or cell phone? Bloglines does and that is one of the main reasons why I use it.
By netwizard on Apr 29, 2005