Friday, February 17, 2006

RSS Reader Woes

I used several desktop RSS Readers and am not totally satisfied for the following reasons.

  1. I want to share my feed subscriptions and the items I marked as read between a desktop machine at a client site, and my laptop. There seem to be some ways to do this using an FTP server, but I am not sure my client’s firewall will allow the traffic.
  2. RssBandit, SharpReader, and RSSPopper all seem to store data in the user profile without making it easy (or, in some cases, not at all possible) to change where data is stored. At a client site, there is a cap on the allowed profile size, and the RSS Readers were consuming all of the profile space for my account. I do subscribe to a lot of feeds, but I like information.

My solution is to now find a web version of a reader. I decided that I don’t need to get notified on the hour when a new article has been published. Checking feeds once or twice a day should be sufficient.

Does anyone have a suggestion for a website where I can create an account and import my OPML file? It would be cool for my google account allow me to subscribe to feeds, and, ah, index them, so I can search them. J

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Sounds like you need to try Bloglines (www.bloglines.com). And it's free.