8 Jul 2005

RSS Readers: Narrowing Down Your Choices

Which are the most popular feedreaders and where in the list is the one you use?

Brian Livingston this week on itmanagement.earthweb.com compiled a list of the top 20:
"Bloglines* -- 19.49%;
NetNewsWire -- 10.07%;
iTunes -- 9.53%;
Firefox Live Bookmarks -- 7.25%;
iPodder -- 7.17%;
My Yahoo* -- 6.68%;
FeedDemon -- 4.23%;
NewsGator Online* -- 3.83%;
Reader not identified -- 3.07%;
Pluck -- 2.07%;
SharpReader -- 1.91%;
iPodderX -- 1.77%;
Thunderbird -- 1.75%;
Safari RSS -- OS X Tiger -- 1.75%;
LiveJournal -- 1.44%;
NewsGator Outlook Edition -- 1.27%;
Apple CFNetwork Generic Client -- 1.21%;
RSS Bandit -- 0.99%;
Opera RSS Reader -- 0.90%, and
Sage -- 0.82%. "

Now I've used Bloglines since I first came across it. Being able to read my blogs from anywhere was a great advance over FeadReader where I could only really read with one machine. I've not bothered to try any of the other web based services. What do other users of these feel about their choice?

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