Ask Jeeves' Bloglines Launches Package Tracking Feature

Ask Jeeves, Inc., a provider of information retrieval products, announced on Wednesday that Bloglines, a free online service for searching, subscribing, publishing and sharing news feeds, blogs and web content has released new capabilities that help consumers cusomize and monitor dynamic web information.

According to the company, with these new capabilities, Bloglines will move beyond aggregating general-audience blogs and RSS news feeds to enable individuals to receive updates that are personal to their daily lives. Currently, people can track the shipping progress of package deliveries from FedEx, UPS, and the United States Postal Service within their Bloglines MyFeeds page. In future, Bloglines readers can acquire unique-to-me information on Bloglines, such as neighborhood weather updates and stock portfolio tracking.

"Bloglines is a Universal Inbox that captures all kinds of dynamic information that helps busy individuals be more productive throughout the day-at the office, at school, or on the go," said Mark Fletcher, vice president and general manager of Bloglines at Ask Jeeves. "With an index of more than 370 million blog and news feed articles in seven languages, we're already one of the largest wells of dynamic web information. With unique-to-me news updates we're aiming to be the most comprehensive and useful personalized information resource on the web."