![]() Not counting the 10 most popular feeds, Bloglines would represent only 46% more subscriptions than My Yahoo, not 192% more (as shown in Table 2).īy any measure, My Yahoo is a huge online service that delivers news and entertainment feeds of all kinds to 25 million users, according to the company. ![]() If only half of Bloglines’ users have been active within the past 30 days, Bloglines would represent only 1/10 as many total RSS subscriptions as My Yahoo, not 1/5 (as shown last week in Table 1). Greg Reinacker, CTO of NewsGator Technologies, says that his company’s Web-based RSS reader, NewsGator Online, reports “everyone who hasn’t canceled.” Both Bloglines’ and NewsGator Online’s counts, therefore, would be lower if only those users who’ve logged on in the past 30 days were reported. “As far as I know, My Yahoo is the only one that monitors activity,” he states. Asked what percentage of Bloglines accounts have logged in lately, Fletcher demurred: “I’m not exactly sure what we can release.” He cited a recent acquisition of Bloglines by Ask Jeeves as one reason exact figures can’t be given out. Mark Fletcher, the founder of Bloglines, confirms that his service reports every subscriber, even those who haven’t checked in for months. “I understand that Bloglines counts the total number of people who’ve ever subscribed,” he says. Scott Gatz, senior director of personalization products for, says My Yahoo counts (and reports to FeedBurner) only those subscribers who’ve actually logged into their online accounts within the last 30 days. In separate interviews this week, spokesmen for My Yahoo and Bloglines differed over how their online services count subscribers. In this second list, Bloglines came in first with 19.5% of subscriptions, while My Yahoo dropped to sixth place with 6.7%. Since some RSS feeds are turned on by default for many new My Yahoo users, I also published a Top 20 list that excluded the 10 most popular feeds. ![]() My column showed that My Yahoo tops every other RSS reader, claiming 59% of all RSS subscriptions. Client-based RSS users are easily counted (each personal computer is counted once per feed.) Web-based readers, by contrast, self-report a subscriber count for each feed as part of HTML’s so-called User-Agent string. The figures were provided by FeedBurner, a free service that handles more than 70,000 RSS feeds. I published figures in that column on the top 20 RSS readers, both online and client-based. You can monitor certain keywords across your feed or even across all public articles, and can highlight certain words that pop up to make sure that you don’t miss them as you scroll.Getting good numbers on the most popular online readers of RSS (Really Simple Syndication) isn’t easy, as I said in my column last week. On top of this, Inoreader features some pretty impressive automation options to help you get more out of your feed than you would with a standard reader. These collections feature a whole bunch of different options from different sources all over the internet, so you can quickly and easily set up your RSS feed. The options here are diverse and include collections from news, to investing, to more creative pursuits. You can search for feeds using Inoreader’s inbuilt search engine, or try out some of its featured feed collections. What’s cool about Inoreader, however, is how it helps you to find more of what you want to see. You can add new feeds easily yourself, and if you’re a long-time user coming from another RSS reader, you can easily import your feeds directly. At its core, Inoreader is capable of doing just about anything you might want from an RSS reader.
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