Comments on: The Open Source RSS Reader

By: BlogBridge: Screencasts at Techives

BlogBridge: Screencasts at Techives — Sun, 06 Nov 2005 06:34:45 +0000

[...] BlogBridge, a great rss feed reader (profiled by TechCrunch here), is seizing the videocast as a marketing tool, and is publishing Screencasts, meant to teach people the ins and outs of their program. Good stuff for any of you BlogBridge users, and if you haven’t tried BlogBridge, I reccommend trying it out and watching the videos. It’s a great app. atom BlogBridge blogs feeds information junkie rss // Used for showing and hiding user information in the comment form function ShowUtils() { document.getElementById(”authorinfo”).style.display = “”; document.getElementById(”showinfo”).style.display = “none”; document.getElementById(”hideinfo”).style.display = “”; } function HideUtils() { document.getElementById(”authorinfo”).style.display = “none”; document.getElementById(”showinfo”).style.display = “”; document.getElementById(”hideinfo”).style.display = “none”; } [...]

By: Webnewsblog » Blog Archive » BlogBridge

Webnewsblog » Blog Archive » BlogBridge — Wed, 02 Nov 2005 16:51:02 +0000

[...] Abilon mi sembra un buon desktop feed aggregator, ma purtroppo gli manca un pÃ² di affidabilitÃ . Quando il numero dei feed Ã¨ cominciato a crescere ha cominciato a darmi problemi, a dire la veritÃ il problema Ã¨ uno solo, ma non da poco: si inchioda e perde tutti i feed. Fortunatamente tengo sempre un file OPML di scorta con tutti i miei canali preferiti Adesso ho disinstallato Abilon e sto provando BlogBridge, segnalato su TechCrunch. BlogBridgeÃ¨ un lettore RSS gratuito, scritto in Java, open source, disponibile per Windows XP, Mac OS X and Linux. Buona la prima impressione, fra qualche giorno vi potrÃ² dire di piÃ¹, intanto, lo metto un po’ alla prova. [...]

By: mardoen

mardoen — Tue, 01 Nov 2005 16:21:35 +0000

You might want to mention that BlogBridge uses the folder-based approach to feed presentation (similar to mail applications) as opposed to the “river of news”. I went to try it out and this is what put me off. And btw, SearchFox is still the best “river of news”-style reader out there.

By: bman

bman — Tue, 01 Nov 2005 16:20:50 +0000

I was using http://www.feedreader.com which is very lite but bugy and seems to have lost its development.

I’ve moved onto http://www.rssowl.org which is java and very nice. There are a couple UI functions I dont like but very nice and quite fast on my PIII 600.

Thanks for the lead here to blogbridge. ‘m interested to see hwo it compares to the Owl.

By: Gtox

Gtox — Tue, 01 Nov 2005 15:44:41 +0000

can anyone tell me why I would want to use this instead of something like netvibes?

By: WalkerPad » BlogBridge

WalkerPad » BlogBridge — Tue, 01 Nov 2005 05:44:37 +0000

[...] I just discovered BlogsBridge. Techcrunch had a short write up. This is perhaps one of the best free RSS clients I have played with. [...]

By: Jeff Blaine

Jeff Blaine — Tue, 01 Nov 2005 05:34:51 +0000

http://www.rssowl.org/

Platform independent, full featured

By: anon

anon — Tue, 01 Nov 2005 04:53:42 +0000

So this open-source project is “located in Arlington, Mass.”, eh?

How is that possible? While you are at it, can you give me the location for the Linux kernel?

By: Pig Pen » BlogBridge - its an adventure

Pig Pen » BlogBridge - its an adventure — Tue, 01 Nov 2005 04:00:51 +0000

[...] BlogBridge is a free Open Source desktop RSS Reader that runs on Windows XP, Mac OS X and Linux. (via TechCrunch) Top [...]

By: Michael Buckbee

Michael Buckbee — Tue, 01 Nov 2005 03:09:42 +0000

You might also want to check out Gregarious (http://gregarius.net/).

It’s OpenSource and a bit like having your own personal version of Bloglines running on your server.