Bloglines 3.0

Bloglines switched it’s user-agent from “Bloglines 2.1” to “Bloglines 3.0-rho” on Tuesday afternoon. My guess is that “rho” are the initials of a Bloglines search engineer who pushed his test code live without changing the user-agent but there could be some big changes coming in near future.

If you are a FeedBurner user you may have noticed a large drop in your subscriber statistics over the past day (hat tip: jasonspage). I just heard back from Dick Costolo, Chief Executive Officer (CEO), and learned that FeedBurner had previously ignored this Bloglines user-agent as it was just a development test but they will be changing over their site code this morning to reflect the new behavior of Bloglines and its code.