Earthlink Debuts RSS Reader, Social Bookmarking Site

EarthLink has quietly launched an RSS reader called the myEarthLink Reader that's tightly integrated with a new social bookmarking site that's similar to del.icio.us. I discovered the reader in my referrer logs.

The core selling point of the RSS reader, they say, is that it shows you only the new articles since your last visit, not all items in a feed that are unread. The reader appears to be built with AJAX and it supports OPML file import and exporting. You can also easily add feed items to your social bookmarks from directly inside the reader.

The social bookmarking site is similar to del.icio.us and Yahoo MyWeb. You can tag and share favorites and see all of the other bookmarks in the community that share the same tags.

EarthLink is facing the same dilemma that portals like AOL have. They need to make sure they keep eyeballs on their sites that might be gravitating to other stand-alone destinations. Adding a feed reader and social boomarking help keep people in EarthLink's domain by introducing a whole swath of newbies to the Web 2.0 experience. Thumbs up!

Technorati Tags: AJAX, del.icio.us, EarthLink

Comments

[Dave Coustan]

Glad you found them, Steve!

We're looking to take a simpler, less nerdified approach to both social bookmarking and RSS aggregation. Hopefully our tools will be as useful to people new to RSS and bookmarking as they will be to syndication and sharing veterans.

They've rolled out to a small number of our users -- we're still working a few kinks out and there's lots more on the roadmap for both apps. I'll be writing more on each on Earthling.

We're also starting product blogs for feedback on each - blogs.earthlink.net/myfavorites and blogs.earthlink.net/myreader .

If anyone wants to give the new apps a try, they're welcome to go to http://reader.earthlink.net and http://myfavorites.earthlink.net and create a free portal/webmail account.

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[ozgur alaz]

I think that's great tool. I always wished to integrate my bloglines and my delicious. Bookmark what i am reading on my reader easily. It's cool

[Gizminino]

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[viz]

I think social bookmarking market is beginning to get crowded. In few years we have to fill the whole page with links to many bookmarking sites

[Bookmark Devil]

Ad long as social bookmark sites prevent spam and collboration by spammers they are a useful tool to many!