Which Feed Reader is Best?

Does anyone know if you can tag a news item in NetVibes for later reading? In iGoogle I can use Google Reader to tag an item as a favorite so I can read it later when I have more time, but there doesn’t seem to be a similar option in Netvibes that I can find, and it’s the one dealbreaker preventing me from using it exclusively. :-|

Gregarius all the way for me , its slightly slower than a local application but means all my feeds are in sync and I only read them once whether I am using a desktop at home or out with my Nokia N800.

Hi there!
I’m browsing feeds since 2003 and I’ve been using Feedreader for a year now. I didn’t find a better reader.

Footprint is sometimes high but I mostly use it for its ability to easily handle hundreds of subscribed feeds and the ‘offline’ view, which I use a lot while in the train.

It also has the “smartfeed” function, which basically allows you to create “watchers” (complex search queries) on the feeds you’ve subscribed to, which themselves work as feeds.

I also tried GReader and bloglines but I appreciate offline browsing. It keeps concentrated on what has arrived in the feeds without clicking on every interesting link I find online.

I use NewsFire but have never compared notes with any other Mac users on alternatives. No one I know in person here in my little community even knows what a Feed Reader is. Or what a Feed is, for that matter. Few know what a blog is.

So, thanks Darren – this is a useful poll for me to look over.

I should mention that I am barely over last week’s Group Writing Project, which kind of set me back in terms of keeping up for a few days there!

The Sage-Extension for Firefox and Google Browser-Sync – the winning team. All feeds in sync – at home, at work, on the laptop …

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netvibes.com with it’s clean look and modules makes reading blogs a breeze. nothing has been easier for me. thanks for putting the question out there. interestingly enough, it wasn’t easy to find updated content on what the best rss readers are out there.

I use JetBrains Omea Reader.
It is a free offline reader that has everything I need.

The main feature that makes me use it is that you can set some feeds so that when you click the headline it opens the actual web page of the blog in the application which is extremely useful for blogs that don’t include full text in their feeds.

I dunno if it is just me or what, but I didn’t find any of you guys mentioning anything about either the new feature in IE 7 to of feed reader or in the new outlook 2007 … honestly, i don’t find either of them is sufficient to me, but I really wanna stick to one good offline reader that would work well with Windows Vista, any recommendations ?

Another vote here for sage plugin for firefox. I gave google reader a try once but went back to sage. You can also organise your sage feed bookmarks just like you would all your other bookmarks from the “organise bookmarks” menu item.

I found google reader the best.

I think some who are saying they are satisfied with the built-in feed readers in the various browsers (IE7, firefox, Opera) must have simple needs that do not require an aggregator.

By aggregator, I mean a feed reader that allows you to see all the news items. For a simple example, let’s say you need to keep up with, say, medical news. You put all of the feeds you want in one folder, and then you can see them all together when reading the whole folder – all in one list, that is. This is very handy and time saving when you have that kind of need. Programs like Sharpreader, Feedreader, RSS Bandit, etc. allow you to do this. Browsers don’t, and so they are next to useless for this.

Personally, I think that if you’re only going to check out your feeds one feed at a time, you don’t gain much over just going to the websites where those feeds originate. This is just using a feed reader as a kind of bookmark system, as opposed to a real feed aggregator.

I’ve used Liferea (on Linux), Sharpreader, Feedreader and RSS Bandit myself, as well as the Firefox add-ons Sage, Wiz, Newsfox and Brief.

My personal favourite is Feedreader, but I also like Sharpreader. They are both very similar in their simplicity and effectiveness, but as of right now (April 2008), Feedreader is more current, while Sharpreader almost seems abandoned. I really could live with any of them, though. I like both Sage and Newsfox, but I can’t be committed to using just one browser at the moment.

I use Google Reader. Google Reader is the best so far!!