Comments on: FeedDemon 2.0 Is Coming http://www.feld.com/wp/archives/2005/12/feeddemon-20-is-coming.html Fri, 19 Mar 2010 04:56:03 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Nick Bradbury http://www.feld.com/wp/archives/2005/12/feeddemon-20-is-coming.html/comment-page-1#comment-1937 Nick Bradbury Wed, 28 Dec 2005 13:06:19 +0000 http://www.feld.com/wp/?p=744#comment-1937 Thanks for the post, Brad! Rob, I don't wish to knock Thunderbird - it's a great application - but it was designed as a mail reader rather than as an RSS reader. IMO, once you get to a certain volume in your RSS reading, the one-item-at-a-time email metaphor break down and you start getting overloaded. FeedDemon was designed specifically for reading RSS, which (as Brad points out) enables you to manage a high volume of incoming information. FeedDemon offers multiple views of your feeds, including a "river of news" which shows items from multiple feeds combined into a single newspaper. FeedDemon also offers podcatching tools, enabling you to download podcasts and sync them with your iPod or other media player. Plus, FeedDemon's synchronization with NewsGator Online keeps your subscriptions synched, enabling you to read your feeds on different computers without duplication of unread items (a big deal if you use more than one computer, such as a desktop at work and a laptop when traveling). And as you can see from the screenshots that Brad linked to, FeedDemon will soon become a lot smarter by noticing what you're paying attention to - useful stuff for recommending other feeds, or simply letting you know which feeds you're reading the most. Thanks for the post, Brad! Rob, I don’t wish to knock Thunderbird – it’s a great application – but it was designed as a mail reader rather than as an RSS reader. IMO, once you get to a certain volume in your RSS reading, the one-item-at-a-time email metaphor break down and you start getting overloaded.

FeedDemon was designed specifically for reading RSS, which (as Brad points out) enables you to manage a high volume of incoming information. FeedDemon offers multiple views of your feeds, including a “river of news” which shows items from multiple feeds combined into a single newspaper. FeedDemon also offers podcatching tools, enabling you to download podcasts and sync them with your iPod or other media player. Plus, FeedDemon’s synchronization with NewsGator Online keeps your subscriptions synched, enabling you to read your feeds on different computers without duplication of unread items (a big deal if you use more than one computer, such as a desktop at work and a laptop when traveling).

And as you can see from the screenshots that Brad linked to, FeedDemon will soon become a lot smarter by noticing what you’re paying attention to – useful stuff for recommending other feeds, or simply letting you know which feeds you’re reading the most.

]]> By: rob http://www.feld.com/wp/archives/2005/12/feeddemon-20-is-coming.html/comment-page-1#comment-1936 rob Tue, 27 Dec 2005 02:15:39 +0000 http://www.feld.com/wp/?p=744#comment-1936 forgive my ignorance but what makes feeddemon that much better then, for example, thunderbird? forgive my ignorance but what makes feeddemon that much better then, for example, thunderbird?

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