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This morning while in the shower, I began to think about how nice it would be to have an application on my phone to read RSS. That way, regardless of where I was or what I was doing, I could keep up with the news, information, and life events that are regularly fed to me. However, I also began to realize that I've come to rely on "BlogLines":http://bloglines.com/ a lot in regard to knowing what I've read, what I haven't read, what I like reading, and what I intend to comment on. So then I began to think that it would be even nicer if BlogLines had some sort of API to allow me to gather the information they normally present on their website for my own uses in my own applications. So then I get to work, fire up bloglines and, low and behold, there's a new item to read regarding "BlogLines services":http://www.bloglines.com/services/.

So they've done it. The Sync API is the most interesting, as it's what allows you to read the information BlogLines gathers for you. It's fairly complete. The only feature I would have wished for would have been the ability to mark a single item as read (as opposed to an entire folder or, an entire folder from a certain date on). Or, at least, like the web interface has, the ability to mark a single item as unread. Regardless of that complaint, as it is now, it seems fairly usable. Now, if only Python for the Series 60 was available for use.