Just counting all the feed readers out there would be a daunting task, much less actually choosing one. Fortunately we have people like Ryan Stewart and Richard MacManus, who've written a round-up of their picks for
best-of-breed RSS readers over at Read/WriteWeb. Stewart and MacManus split the task into three categories: Web-based, desktop, and "rich internet application." The latter category is a bit hard to pin down. Stewart and MacManus' idea of an "RIA" is an app that takes the best from both the desktop and the web, i.e. the power of a desktop app with the locationless (and install-less) and social aspects of a web app. For web-based readers, MacManus chooses
Rojo (which I
recently praised here) and
Bloglines, and for the desktop
NewsGator and
BlogBridge. For the RIA category they don't have any definitive picks, but MacManus tentatively taps
Google Reader,
FeedLounge, and
Goowy. Head over to Read/WriteWeb to read the full article, or post your own picks in the comments.
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Subscribe to commentsAdoraJun 10th 2006 3:16AM
I'm an awfully big fan of http://forumzilla.mozdev.org/ m'self.
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depJun 10th 2006 8:10AM
I'm sticking with Sage, the firefox RSS reader extension. It's everything I need in an RSS reader without all the rickita-rackita of those fancy thick clients and (for me, anyway) un-needed social aspects. I just want to be informed on my feeds.. That's it.
I wish Sage automatically refreshed the list every x minutes, though, and bolded the feeds that had new items (right now, refreshes are manual).
Mike C.Jun 10th 2006 2:11PM
Gregarius (http://gregarius.net/) is a good choice for those that have web hosting space with PHP/MySQL support. It's like having your own personal Bloglines that will never go away.