Blogarithm Acquisition

We are proud and excited to announce that the Blogarithm service has been acquired by Blue Sky Factory, one of today’s leading email marketing service providers. Blue Sky Factory also provides RSSFWD (www.rssfwd.com), a leading provider of RSS to email technology solutions.

We are excited about this because the merging of Blogarithm and RSSFWD will provide a variety of enhancements to our current service, including timelier updates and a variety of new configuration options. We know you’ll love this too!

Here’s what’s going to happen and what it means to you:

1. Starting soon, all new subscriptions coming from existing blog forms will go to RSSFWD. New subscriptions for those with existing accounts will be added to their Blogarithm accounts.
2. Unless you choose to opt out (more details coming soon), your account will be moved to the RSSFWD system, using settings which approximate your current settings.
3. After your account is moved to RSSFWD you will receive a welcome message with instructions for modifying your settings if you desire.

IMPORTANT NOTE: All of this unfortunately comes at the cost of an important Blogarithm feature, which is the ability to track blogs or other websites that do not have a “feed”. Most blogs these days provide a “feed”, which allows software and services such as Blogarithm and RSSFWD to easily recognize changes on the site. In fact, a popular format for these feeds is “RSS”, which is where RSSFWD gets its name. RSSFWD only works with blogs and other websites that provide feeds and so if a blog to which you are subscribed does not provide a feed it will no longer work once your account is moved. We deeply apologize for this, but it has proven impossible to provide this type of website tracking without compromising performance (as many of you might have noticed in recent months on Blogarithm). The good news is that once you move to RSSFWD you’ll be able to get email updates as quickly as within an hour or two or less after a blog is changed.

We are so glad to have been able to have served you for over 5 years now and we are very confident that if you like Blogarithm you’ll love the fantastic features available at RSSFWD.

Best wishes and Happy Holidays,

Max and Andy
-The Blogarithm Team