I've had an
invitation to
FeedLounge in my Inbox since July, and now I'm never going to get to
use it. FeedLounge is yet another web-based feed reader service, but has gotten pretty stellar reviews, and has just
opened up to the public. It has the requisite AJAXy interface ("you may quickly forget that you’re using a
web application"), a full set of keyboard shortcuts, three different views (Outlook-style, three-column, or river
of news), color-coded tagging and flagging, OPML import and export, 401 authentication, and more. One thing you'll find
in FeedLounge that you won't in most other services, though, is a price tag: FeedLounge costs $5/month or $50/year. You
can try a three-hour demo, but they only let 50 people on at a time, and the waiting list is pretty long.
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Subscribe to commentsRyan WaddellJan 26th 2006 12:17PM
Hrmm... I don't see much point in paying for this when Bloglines works perfectly well, and is freeeeeeeee (as in beer).
murphJan 26th 2006 12:25PM
and don't forget the free Google reader. these guys are dead in the water.
markJan 26th 2006 1:19PM
newsgator work great for me, and it's also free.
tylerJan 26th 2006 1:58PM
I purchased a year subscription. I love it. It's the reader to end all readers. I tried using Google Reader for a couple weeks. It's lacking so many features though.
lordtimeJan 26th 2006 4:26PM
Well, i invite you to try www.newsalloy.com - most of our users just came to us from long time subscription with Bloglines and Rojo and they stay with us.
Free, Fast AJAX Driven Gmail style navigation, easy to manahe hundreds of subscriptions. in early december it was eary beta (not good) - now almost RC :)
PS to get help read development blog
thanks!
KeseyJan 26th 2006 6:55PM
It's too bad that people are enabling web-based software to be marketed as a service. You can get many great newsreaders for free - $30, but of course you'll have to have your machine with you. Who would pay a monthly fee for software? It's not like it's MS Office.