The sites are part reader service, part trusted friend.
Service bulletins compiled by Alldata are frequently published on these pages as a reader service.
This is probably the ultimate in reader service, but we can't altogether approve of it editorially.
Meanwhile, RSS-reader service MultiPLX is also banging the drum for its suitability as a Google Reader alternative, having launched as a limited beta in May.
In 1985, long before most Americans started going online, PC Magazine introduced an interactive reader service, which evolved into ZDNet by the early 1990's.
Another reader service that launched last week, called Potluck, provides a vision for what a socially driven feed reader might look like: it creates a list of stories based on what a user's friends are reading and sharing.
Squeezing our use of paper and increasing our subscription rates again strains our paying readers' endurance, whereas the centralisation policy in a number of regions has resulted in unacceptable deterioration of (re delivery, reader service and complaints processing.
TechCrunch predicted that Facebook would unveil its own news reader service to make up for the end of Google Reader, but the tech blog has since said it is not likely and that the author expects a video service as well.
The home page was redesigned with a nice-looking logo, used tables to divide the pages into columns, and a few interactive reader service functions were added.
Bloglines has lost momentum over the last 12-24 months as Google's excellent Google Reader service has taken the market lead according to some reports.
