What do you use to read RSS feeds?

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I thought the latest statistics from FeedBurner on who’s subscribed to my feed were interesting. Over the weekend I mentioned in passing that NewsGator had nearly caught up with Bloglines. As of this morning, NewsGator has a big lead, at least in visitors here. Add up the number of subscribers who read this feed in the three NewsGator products and you get 364, which is about a third more than the total for Bloglines.

Reader/Aggregator Circulation
Bloglines 274
NewsGator Online 225
NewsGator Outlook Edition 95
Firefox Live Bookmarks 76
Onfolio 2.0 48
FeedDemon (NewsGator) 44
My Yahoo 44
RSS Bandit 39
SharpReader 37
Sage 26
Thunderbird 13

There are at least 50 additional named user agents in this list, but none had a share of more than 1%.

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9 thoughts on “What do you use to read RSS feeds?”

  1. I use Bloglines, although I used to use FeedDemon (and still have a license key for it). I tried NewsGator Online last night, although I still think Bloglines is more convinient.

  2. I have used RSS feeds before. I have used both Bloglines and FeedDemon. But I have since gone back to bookmarking favorite blogs using plain ‘ol Internet Explorer. Besides, I keep track of only a handful of blogs.

  4. You have fewer than 13 people using NetNewsWire? That is, there aren’t 12 other NNW users besides me who subscribe to your feed? That’s quite weird, given how widely NNW is used across the rest of the Web.

  5. The current count for NetNewsWire is 11, out of a subscriber base of 1013. That appears to be accurate, based on referr strings. It also kinda makes sense, as I don’t post a lot of content that’s relevant for Mac users.

  6. I personally use either Desktop Sidebar for most of my RSS feeds. But I also use Plucker to DL the feeds to my Palm PDA

  7. I use MindManager X5 Pro – I like the way the application displays the feed in a visual format.

    MindManager has a feature called smart map parts that contains active links to applications and Web services such as RSS feeds. Creating smart map parts is a little difficult at first but the pay off is pretty big.

  8. Why not try Bloglines.Bloglines is much better than newsgator. You can synchronize bloglines with blogbot for outlook. Folder hierarchy is synchronized between Outlook and Online via blogbot. It’s much better than newsgator between outlook and online.
    If you like desktop news client, You can use Greatnews to synchronize bloglines like newsgator using feeddemon. Good news is Greatnews is a wonderful free software but feeddemon isn’t.Folder hierarchy is synchronized between Bloglines and Greatnews. Feeddemon doesn’t synchronize Folder hierarchy between newsgator online and itself. Greatnews can be found at :http://www.curiostudio.com/
    If you like newsgator for outlook, don’t worry, blogbot does the same and better job for outlook. blogbot can be found at http://www.blogbot.com/out/.
    Even you uses several computer, you won’t read the same news twice. cause it’s synchronized online, at outlook via blogbot, at desktop by greatnews.
    Bloglines doesn’t offer a desktop service? That’s not true, check out Greatnews!
    newsgator is about to attract you to put money out to their pocket. But bloglines platform strongly supported by blogbot in outlook and gratnews in desktop client is about freedom of goodness of sharing.

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