Desktop RSS Readers are good for offline reading–not yet dead
This is another impressive news added to topic that i have been mentioned in my previous post - ‘RSS’ . Many of you may have not yet started, just started, or may have been so far a fan of using this technology to grab the news from the sites you like and they are many methods that we can use for reading RSS, they are desktop applications and web applications. The choice is yours, but i think it is base on the situation we’re in.
Like i’ve mentioned Google Reader, Bloglines, and Rojo, they are the three most popular application on the web for reading RSS but Google Reader has been the most innovative major RSS Reader over the past year, and a lot of people I know use it as their main Reader now (as do I); and I think there are still many people are using desktop application for doing this even many others have said that desktop RSS Readers are dead. Even Google Reader is the main application i use for my RSS reading, but still i am also using feedDemon, a desktop application, to read it because of the possibility to keep me reading when i am offline and ofcause to fill this gap Google have add Google Gears to its reader; but still it does not work really great for me due to the availability of the Internet connection we have, less connection and slow, desktop application is still a good choice for me.
However, let’s have a look at the outside world, according to a post “Desktop RSS Readers are (Nearly) dead” which indicating the result of a poll they’ve made within last 6 months on how people reading their RSS. Many have moved to use web application and Google Reader ofcause is the major choice, but still bloglines and rojo is continue to be popular.
So how do you read your RSS? Do you think desktop readers is really going to dead?
technorati tags:RSS, Reader, RSS-Reader
I think most people use web-based readers now. Although web-based readers don’t have significant advantage over desktop ones (when is the last time you need to read feeds across multiple computers), I think people use web-based solutions because it’s just not cool to download things anymore.
I use a reader called Spokeo (http://www.spokeo.com). Its main advantage is that it can let me subscribe non-RSS information, like my friends’ Youtube favorites. Of course, I also think it looks the best, and honestly, I am tired of readers adding random features that no one uses at all.