The Best RSS Feed Readers
The latest web- and browser-based newsfeed readers can make quick work of keeping up to date on news and blogs from anywhere across the web. Browser-based readers provide instant access to individual feeds, while web-based applications allow greater management of feeds, including subscribing, saving and sharing links, keyboard shortcuts, and access from any web browser (including, increasingly, mobile devices). Here are 16 current solutions:
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Firefox, the popular web browser, displays feeds in its main window, and generously offers to add feeds to your Bloglines, Google or Yahoo subscriptions. It also provides "Live Bookmarks" (pictured here) which add real time headline links to your bookmarks bar.
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iGoogle, Google's personalilzed home page, provides a spot for adding and customizing the display of individual feeds, along with other Google tools.
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Microsoft's Internet Explorer displays feeds (much like Firefox does), and adds in some functionality to search and sort. Feeds can be added to the "Favorites Center."
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Netvibes provides a very flexible individualized homepage, to add feeds and other content.
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NewsGator Online Reader is a companion tool to NewsGator's desktop-based RSS tools FeedDemon (for Windows) and NetNewsWire (for MacOS).
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Web-based reader NewsIsFree provides a more conventional feed page, but its News Map (pictured) is a complete departure.
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Like Netvibes, Pageflakes provides an attractive, easily customizable home page, providing feed access and additional tools.
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Recently purchased by Six Apart (makers of the Typepad and Moveable Type blogging tools) Rojo.com combines a feed reader with a social bookmarking function to tag and vote on links and find popular feeds and articles.
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Apple's Safari browser pulls in web feeds with a unique "Article Length" slider to adjust how many articles fit on a page.
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Apple's Sherlock is more a search tool than a web browser, but it's notable for its split-pane display of the feed links and destination page.
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Like iGoogle and Microsoft Live My Yahoo provides a homepage builder with multiple data sources and layout flexibility.
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KickRSS is a web-based tool that combines all your feed subscriptions into a single display, with some sorting and management capabilities provided.
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This demo solution for Lightstreamer's family of web and internet products provides streaming access to feeds ("No page refresh needed")
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