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Bloglines.com, the blog aggregator I use to read all of your blogs, announced its acquisition by Ask Jeeves today.

Things I gleaned from the press release that I don't know before:

• Bloglines.com was owned and operated by Trustic, Inc. up till now.
• Bloglines.com was chosen Time Magazine's 500 Coolest Websites for 2004
• Mark Fletcher is the CEO of Bloglines, will be VP of Ask Jeeves and GM for Bloglines.
• Mark Fletcher was also behind eGroups, now Yahoo!Groups.
• Ask Jeeves owns excite.com, iwon.com, myway.com

I first learned about Bloglines.com not through the press or word of mouth, but through the first person who subscribed to my blog at Bloglines.com back in September 2003. I first spotted bloglines.com in my referers page and followed the link as all starting bloggers tend to do.

I still don't know who my first blogline.com subscriber is. But thank you all the same for bring me to Bloglines.com. I wish Bloglines.com continued success.