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eagle

The browser war is over.

XML is changing the way we communicate with Atom, RSS and Web Services.

Have you eXperienced the power of XML?

Have you tried a Feed Reader?

john259

I use SharpReader and like it, despite having to endure the bloated 24MB download of .NET Framework which it requires.

I find RSS extremely useful to scan through a whole load of news stories and forum postings quicky.

I've tried to persuade various friends to try RSS, but with one exception nobody - technical or non-technical - showed the slightest bit of interest. I did eventually get one person (technical) to give it a go, but he hated it and said he far preferred to visit web sites.

Perhaps it's my lack of persuasive powers, but not entirely, I think. RSS for the general public appears to be a complete non-starter at the moment, sadly.

John

eagle

You should try Bloglines, it's Web based so I can access it with my PocketPC!

lars

Right now I use Sharpreader. First I tried Bloglines, but I didn't like it. Next I'm going to try Newsgator for a while and see if that is any better.

/Lars.

lars

john259 wrote:

I've tried to persuade various friends to try RSS, but with one exception nobody - technical or non-technical - showed the slightest bit of interest.

It takes abit of getting used to. But once I got that "eureka!" feeling there is no going back!

/Lars.

surferdude
surferdude

I'll throw in a vote for bloglines as well.

scobleizer
I'm the video guy

My favorites?

NewsGator or IntraVnews (because they are integrated into Outlook).
RSS Bandit or Sharpreader (cause they works well with Channel9's comment feeds).
FeedDemon (nice user interface and fast performance).
Bloglines (for reading on the Web).

scobleizer
I'm the video guy

Here's some other reviews:

http://www.reallysimplesyndication.com/directory/22/reviews

JasonBunting
Atop Cheop's Pyramid in the Grand Canyon, Nov 1995

I personally love the idea of aggregators. So nice to get all of the content in one place. I turn people onto it when I can, but I do get mixed reactions.

I love SharpReader. I have tried RSSBandit, but I keep having this problem with it - it doesn't seem to remember which entries I have read or haven't read after I shut it off and start it back up. It drives me crazy so I stick with SR.

lars

It basicly allows me to monitor an order of magnitude more sources of information on a daily basis. And I don't have to do a thing but start the program. Being both curious and lazy it works out great. Smiley

/Lars.

theseanster
Geek on the Beach (not a drink)

I use RSS Bandit. NewsGator has a great idea of integrating with Outlook, but I noticed a huge memory leak. If you use NewsGator, take a look at how much memory Outlook starts to use over time. Once I uninstalled NewsGator, Outlook was fine again.

jamesa
james

FeedDemon for me, the UI is great and the performance is top notch. I refuse to use a reader that takes up 50+ Megs of memory. I like to leave it open all day while I work, and I need all the free memory I can get.

The only thing I dont like about Feeddemon is the lack of comment feeds, but Nick is pretty open to feedback so hopefully we will have this in one of the next editions.

warren
atom heart mother

NewsGator for me.

dpjanes

Hi,

I'm David Janes and I wrote BlogMatrix Jäger. I'm going to start this backwards and tell you why you might not want to use this aggregator:

If you think Outlook (and Outlook-style) is the greatest UI model in the world, there's lots of aggregators out there for you. I hear some of them are quite good.
If you need a web-based aggregator, I hear Bloglines is quite nice.

Now that that's out of the way, if you're a browser-centric guy like me, or you read a _lot_ of blogs, and hate wasting time, I think Jäger is the way to go. It works as a small app that sits to the side of your browser and tells you what's been updated on a site (it uses Atom and RSS, but has a bunch of different heuristics for sites that don't support syndication). When you click on a link, the blog, entry or whatever shows up in your browser.

It has a pile of other features too:

Synchronization
extendability (it plugs into Technorati, Waypath, language translation tools)
there's a Mac version
Watch Lists (marks entries that contain keywords)
Some level of BitTorrent integration/RSS 2 enclosure support

Anyhoo, enough from me. It takes about 2 minutes to set up if you want to give it a spin.

Regards, etc...
David
http://jaeger.blogmatrix.com

Reboots DaMachina
Reboots

I use a feed reader. I prefer receiving my information this way. So far it is uncluttered by Flash junk, banner ads (mostly) and some of the good ones let me share! (opml)

The app I use currently is called RssFeedEater. It is made by www.babisoft.com and is at .9.2 beta.

It is simple, easy to add subs and reads atom feeds. It doesn't integrate into anyone's email or browser. That is smart. Dependency is so outmoded.

It even lets me (blogger) blog from my reader. What more could you ask for? If nothing better comes around, I may pay up to $20USD for this app.

Reboots Damachina - - - > My Blog

eagle wrote:

The browser war is over.

XML is changing the way we communicate with Atom, RSS and Web Services.

Have you eXperienced the power of XML?

Have you tried a Feed Reader?

Amanda.Murphy

I have used Sharpreader, Bloglines, and few others before deciding to stick with Newsgator. Outlook is always open on my laptop or desktop - so newsgator is the perfect fit for me.

I like having the ability to forward / reply to posts as well as use the Search Folders feature in Outlook 2003 to catch information on certain topics. My opml file has almost 800 feeds in it so that proves to be quite helpful from Monday to Friday - since I usally dont have time to check every individual feed during the week.

There was a good feed reader I used on the mac a while back...can't remember name right now.

RicarDog

I use RssReader http://www.rssreader.com/.

It's very simple to use.

Haacked
Top of a Mountain in Alaska

I like RSS Bandit because it can synchronize my feeds, read items, unread items between work and home.

Phil

rjdohnert
You will never know success until you know failure

I use SharpReader. I tried James Goslings Java reader first but I fell in love with SharpReader.

tomeppy

Newsgator for me. Love having feeds available in Outlook and subscribing to new feeds through IE is very easy.

misterorange
Forgetfulness is a gift.

I liked the Blogmatrix Jager but creating folders and drag + drop was a huge pain. Too much interface hullabaloo to really be efficient for me.

It also took too much of my startup time as well.

Hated NewsGator, it acted strange, doesn't like those who don't use IE, and for my Firefox-loving self, it just didn't do it for me.

I'll try some others listed here, maybe I'll find something that fits.

Evan
http://www.misterorange.com

JasonMelton

NewsGator. It's the Outlook integration that makes it my choice (and for many others, it sounds like).

I want to centralize all my communication into one point, and Outlook is the single-best (although far from perfect) choice for that right now.

csells
Longhorn Boy

#R rocks in so many ways, it's hard to list them. It's like some kind of drug and every time I try to kick the habit by toying with some other drug, I'm back to #R by the day's end.

jonathanh
My mod color is red

FeedDemon for me. Tried SharpReader, bought a license for NewsGator, but the speed and slickness of FeedDemon wins out. CSS "newspapers" and drag-and-drop into news bins are just icing on the cake...

cageyjames
Excellent

I've tried RSSBandit, but the icon is just too wierd for my tastes.

I enjoy SharpReader because it is just so simple. No need to add "fluff" and ruin what should be a simple program.