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Aug '07
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by Frank Spychalski filed under Blog
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Thanks to Sonja I found out, that bloglines launched the new beta for their feed reader under beta.bloglines.com.
It looks very similar to the old app with a lot of added AJAX. But they fixed at least one major annoyance: if you open a feed with a lot of unread messages only the ones you have actually seen are marked as read. Nice, very nice… And bonus points for calling it “βloglines” 
Update 6.9.2007:
As far as I could tell βloglines has all the original features but one: the “keep new” checkbox. I use this very feature quite often to mark important posts and was thinking about switching back to the old version but my prayers were answered today:
What happened to “Keep As New”?
We have renamed “Keep As New” to “Pinned”. It can be toggled by clicking on the pin icon in the lower left of an article (or using the “n” hotkey). Your previous “Keep As New” articles should all be transparently available in the Beta as “Pinned” articles.
I liked the “β” as well and the way marking stuff as read was what made me use google reader for a while now and since they changed it I’ll now go back to my longtime favorite rss reader. Now all I must do is somehow get all my “starred” posts from the reader to bloglines or delicious.
but I miss the “keep new” checkbox, I hope they will add it again