Bloglines allows you to view public subscriptions of other users (and add them to your own). Bloglines shows the number of subscribers for each feed, and you can view public subscribers. However, Bloglines disregards “the” before the feedname, and we found it difficult to find the feeds we were used to reading by the name we remembered them by.Ĥ. This was a one-time issue, but it certainly got us off on the wrong foot with regard to our NewsGator experience.ģ. NewsGator doesn’t have this feature, meaning we had to click on each and every one of our 250+ feeds after importing the opml file to clear out old content. Bloglines has a “mark all read” feature that clears out all unread content. This seems like a small issue, but we found it really annoying when using NewsGator.Ģ. This means that you can peruse feeds without losing the content in the right pane. Both have two pane interfaces, but Bloglines allows scrolling of the left pane whereas NewsGator doesn’t. Things Bloglines does better than NewsGator:ġ. NewsGator was never down during our testing period. If you want a PC or Mac based desktop client, you have the ability to sync feeds with that client so you don’t read the same content twice (Bloglines doesn’t offer a desktop service).Ĥ. Also, the clippings folder is added to the main directory on the left pane, whereas bloglines has an additional tab to click to view clipped items.ģ. While both services have a “clippings” feature, we found NewsGator’s to be much easier to use – one click. Feeds are updated much more frequently on NewsGator (a very, very important feature).Ģ. Things NewsGator does better than Bloglines:ġ. Importing was easy, thanks to the Bloglines export feature and the NewsGator import feature. To test NewsGator, we imported our Bloglines feeds and used it exclusively for a few days. However, even with its shortcoming, we find that NewsGator Online is not as good as Bloglines (but it’s close). Their site is also down quite often (who’s seen the infamous Bloglines Plumber recently?) They are the largest RSS reader (other than Yahoo) (Bloglines accounts for about 30% of Techcrunch subscriptions, NewsGator is a close second), but these problems are leading many users to try out other services. That means content comes infrequently and is stale – just the opposite of the core reason for using an RSS reader. – sorting options includ by date, view older/newer firstīloglines has recently had significant delays in updating feeds – often updating only once a week. – great “clipping” tool to save content with one click – can view all feeds, or just feeds with new content – two pane interface – clippings, folders and feeds on the left, content on the right (similar to bloglines) Also, Bloglines is the gold standard of web-based RSS readers, and it is natural to compare and contrast the two services (see our Blogines profile here) The reason we like the Online edition is that it is not tied to a single computer. Today, Nick Bradbury (Feeddemon founder) further changed pricing for his product. They’ve recently changed their pricing structure, and based on its complexity (and user feedback), we suspect things may be further simplified over time. We will probably profile NewsGator’s other products soon. NewsGator has a number of other popular products, including an Outlook product and the products offered by Feeddemon (recently acquired by NewsGator). This profile reviews only NewsGator’s online product. There is a natural tendency to view NewsGator Online in comparison to Bloglines, as the products are both very popular and similar in many ways.įounded: 2003. Editor’s Note: This is a profile of NewsGator’s online product only, not its outlook, feeddemon and other products.
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