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Because Bloglines is a Web-based app, all users' subscribed feeds pass through its servers, and it takes advantage of this to add a couple of very powerful features. A "Related Feeds" button helps you discover other RSS feeds that cover similar topics. Click it and you'll see a list to preview and choose from. The other is a search engine that's focused on blog entries.
You can install a notifier application (there's a variant for most operating systems) that will pop up to notify you when new items are added to your feeds. You can also set up e-mail subscriptions, so that as Bloglines finds new items they are sent to your e-mail.
Once you've subscribed to a feed, you have some control over the display of its entries, but only some. You can set read/unread status, and choose to display the entire entry, a summary, or just the title. If you want to see text but not pictures, for example, you're out of luck. Particularly frustrating in Bloglines is the inability to display the entry's permalink or original URL.
A "Clippings" feature allows you to copy an entry to a separate navigation pane labeled "Clippings" and even sort clipped entries into folders as a way of categorizing them, but there is no categorizing feature to equate with the flexibility of Google Reader's tags.
Bloglines seems almost overloaded with features. There is a mobile service available, for example, for the tiny, tiny screen of your cell phone, and you can subscribe to a package delivery service's waybill just the way you subscribe to a blog, and track your package from the navigation bar just like the other feeds.
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