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09 January 2008

Free RSS readers! Newsgator has announced that FeedDemon (for the PC) and NetNewsWire (Mac) as well as their other RSS products are now all free! This is good.→[More:]
NNW's 3.0.x "check for updates" feature didn't work for me, so I grabbed the brand new 3.1 straight from their site.

post by: TheDonF at: 18:26 | 12 comments

It all looks different, I am unsettled.

posted by chrismear 09 January | 18:31

Is this kind of like when Opera announced that it was now free?

posted by box 09 January | 18:37

Kind of, but with Opera they were (and still are) very much in last place in popularity. NNW for the Mac is, I'd guess, the most popular RSS reader there is. They had a Lite version that was free and a paid version that added more features. As of now, it's free so the Lite one doesn't exist. As far as PCs go, I see FeedDemon mentioned everywhere, so I'd guess that that's also a really popular app.

posted by TheDonF 09 January | 18:43

I really must use commas better.

posted by TheDonF 09 January | 18:44

I always use Safari's feed reader since I'm olde skool.

My favorite feed reader is the one that is on my Sony Ericsson phone, but I never use it now that I have the iPhone. I hope Apple makes a feed reader for the jesus phone.

posted by birdherder 09 January | 19:05

They've made it all free so they have a larger pool of data to mine to sell to advertisers. Their PR people seem to have spun this rather well.

posted by cillit bang 09 January | 19:17

I used to use Safari's feed reader, but it can't manage well the amount of feeds I subscribe to now. The iPhone SDK will almost certainly be announced next week, so if Apple don't make one, someone else is bound to.

I hadn't thought about the advertising angle.

posted by TheDonF 09 January | 19:20

Um, I must be old skool too - is this different from Google Reader?

posted by chewatadistance 09 January | 21:21

Google reader is a web-based app whereas these are downloadable, installable applications.

posted by TheDonF 10 January | 01:53

Ohhhh.

posted by chewatadistance 10 January | 07:09

LOL : newsgator is blocked by my firewall.

Which is weird, because ...
1) I control that firewall.
2) I only ban sites if they piss me off.
3) I can't remember why newsgator pissed me off.

posted by seanyboy 10 January | 11:01

Ahhh. Figured it out. Gator.com pissed me off, but the string used to block them "gator.com" also managed to pick up newsgator.com

posted by seanyboy 10 January | 11:04

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