iPhone App FeedLine Supports Google Buzz

The FeedLine 1.3 update is the first iPhone application to hit the App Store that supports Google Buzz public feeds. The app is primarily an RSS reader and goes for $0.99.

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FeedLine does not require a Google Reader account, and supports RSS, Atom, and Google Buzz formats. Real-time news alerts can also be configured for specific terms and delivered using FeedLine.

Google Buzz was recently announced and allows Google users to share photos, videos, and conversations in a social networking application similar to Twitter or Facebook.

The Google Buzz stream is updated in real time and can import content from Twitter, Picasa, Flickr, or Google Reader.

A podcast client is included so users can listen to the latest radio programs using FeedLine. The application, developed by Kapil Bhatia, requires iPhone OS 3.0 or later.

Features include:

- Easily subscribe to feeds by searching the available feeds on the web
- Subscribe to feeds by specifying feed URL
- Supports offline reading of downloaded news items
- Ability to "Like" an item
- Ability to mark a news item read
- Mark all items read for a selected feed
- Mark all items read for all feeds

Real time news alert features include:

- Create a custom news stream by specifying your topic
- Ability to "Like" an item
- Ability to mark an item read
- Mark all items read for a selected news topic
- Mark all items read for all news topics