Recommendations on RSS aggregators and readers and whatnot? What works, what's powerful, what's useless, what's buggy, etc.
I see several exist, but I figured I'd go to the experts rather than just trust strange information I read on the internet.
Posted by Bravo Romeo Delta at August 12, 2005 03:17 PM | TrackBackI use SharpReader. It works gud.
(I haven't looked around too much, but if you want web-based, I've heard good things about Gator News reader).
Posted by Ogre at August 12, 2005 04:51 PMI use Mozilla Thunderbird and like it quite a bit. I track about 75 RSS feeds with it, plus two email accounts.
Posted by Eric at August 12, 2005 06:27 PMBloglines is unfortuntely falling down really badly right now. They've expanded beyond their server capacity, and say they need to move to a new co-location facility before things will get better, but aren't actually saying when that will happen.
As a result, their updating of feeds is slooooow. Often updates are a day late.
That's one of the reasons a client-based reader (an application on your own computer) is a good idea. You determine the update frequency yourself.
The downside is that you can only access your list of feeds from your own machine (ie not over the web from other machines) unless you jump through some extra hoops.
In order to make recommendations more useful, how about you give us an idea of how you'd like to use a reader?
-Approx how many feeds do think you'll be following?
-Need to access your list of feeds from one computer, or several - eg work/home/laptop?
-Do you have admin rights to install apps on the computer you'd like to use - eg restricted rights on work computer?
-What browser and email program do you use? (as mentioned, some email apps and browsers have good basic RSS reader capability built in.)
Just some food for thought.
Paul
Posted by Light & Dark at August 12, 2005 08:58 PMIf you're after a freebie then Sharpreader all the way. If you're prepared to spend a couple of $ then try FeedDemon! That will rock your socks off
Posted by Rob at August 13, 2005 01:11 PMEric,
Paul is right on the money with the questions he asked. A GOOD reccommendation can't be made without answering those VERY important questions.
Based on the answers I too can chime in as I've tried several in the last 2 years. I currently use 2 corporate approved exclusively for research related work, a web (online) edition to read my personal feeds because of security policies at work.
I have another a different one at home with different subscription feeds for my home computer. Then there's my pda....
I think you get the picture.
Heh, I think I'm much more concerned with creating than function than how to access the function. Thunderbird works "good enough for me", so I assume it's a good choice. ;-)
Posted by Eric at August 15, 2005 08:49 PM