Mark Fletcher is an American entrepreneur. He was the founder and

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of the

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Bloglines Bloglines was a web-based news aggregator for reading syndicated feeds using the RSS and Atom formats. Users could subscribe to the syndicated feeds for free using a web browser. Bloglines offered an application programming interface that mainta ...

, and the

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until June 2006. Ask Jeeves acquired Bloglines on 8 February 2005. On September 23, 2014 Fletcher launched Groups.io in beta. In February 2005, Fletcher won one of the annual Rave Awards, presented by ''Wired'' magazine, for the success of Bloglines. Fellow nominees in the Tech Innovator category were

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entrepreneur Jimmy Wales,

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, Scott Maccabe, and Zhang Zuoyi. Previously, Fletcher started the free mailing list service

ONElist ONElist was a free mailing list service created by Mark Fletcher in August 1997. In November 1999 ONElist merged with eGroups. In June 2000 eGroups was purchased by Yahoo! Yahoo! (, styled yahoo''!'' in its logo) is an American web services ...

merged with

eGroups eGroups.com was an email list management web site. The site allowed users to create their own mailing lists and sign up for membership. The web site provided archives of the messages as well as list management functionality. Each group also had a ...

, which was later acquired by

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in June 2000 and is now called

Yahoo! Groups Yahoo! Groups was a free-to-use system of electronic mailing lists offered by Yahoo!. Prior to February 2020, Yahoo! Groups was one of the world's largest collections of online discussion boards. It allowed members to subscribe to various group ...

. Fletcher was also a

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maker Diba, Inc., now owned by

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, and at Pixel, Inc. Fletcher has invested in One True Media,

Plaxo Plaxo was an online address book that launched in 2002. It was a subsidiary of cable television company Comcast from 2008 to 2017. At one point it offered a social networking service. History The company was founded by Sean Parker and two Stanfo ...

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and

Wesabe Wesabe was a personal finance management website established in December 2005 that analyzed a user's financial data to provide appropriate advice on how to save money. The site went live in November 2006. The company behind the website announced on ...

Fletcher obtained a

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degree in

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from the

University of California, San Diego The University of California, San Diego (UC San Diego or colloquially, UCSD) is a public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in San Diego, California. Established in 1960 near the pre-existing Scripps Insti ...

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wingedpig.com
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