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[...] Google Reader, which is more popular than Yahoo and Bloglines combined. I am surprised at that – Recent Feedburner data suggested Google Reader was doing very well, but not as well as the AddThis data suggests. Tags: [...]

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Google Tops Feed Reader and Social Bookmark Rankings — Mon, 15 Oct 2007 15:52:13 +0000

[...] Let’s take these rankings one at a time. On the feed reader side, according to this sample of data, Google comes out on top with 37.7 percent of activity, versus 20.7 percent for MyYahoo, and 9.7 percent for Bloglines. Although if you add up the No. 4 (Windows Live) and No. 5 spots (MyMSN), Microsoft as a whole would nudge Bloglines out of the No. 3 position with a combined 13 percent share. Remember, these numbers don’t mean that there are more people who read their RSS feeds via Google Reader than via MyYahoo. It just means that people are adding more feeds to Google Reader (which makes sense, since it is a younger service and people are still filling out their reading lists, whereas with an older service like MyYahoo, people tend to stop adding feeds after a while). You can compare these engagement stats to some old Feedburner data. [...]

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Google is now the #1 feed reader - what does this tell us? | King Gary — Thu, 26 Apr 2007 19:00:39 +0000

[...] usage over a period of time. This is a very interesting report, and it certainly caused a lot of chatter all around town. While the report is very interesting, it also definitely raises [...]

By: Alan

Alan — Mon, 26 Feb 2007 10:09:53 +0000

One of the understanding is that Yahoo My Page is the simple way to add RSS, beacuse it’s even behyond IE and Firefox.
The question is: will Vista catch all RSS traffic? Or RSS will remain web based?

By: David Scott Lewis (in Beijing)

David Scott Lewis (in Beijing) — Sat, 24 Feb 2007 06:27:04 +0000

I’ve tried ‘em all: Bloglines, MyYahoo, Google Reader, Omea, FeedDemon/NewsGator, Awasu, NewzCrawler, NetVibes, Thunderbird, Opera, FF Livemarks, blah, blah, blah.

The best for online-only reading is Google Readers (although I still maintain a few Bloglines accounts). Matter of fact, my public Bloglines feed is linked with my name in this post. But the Google Reader is a lot better — and it works well with their customized home page.

However, the best solution overall is Omea, especially now that their Pro edition is FREE. Much better than any other solution, no question about it. Yes, it has negligible market share, but this shouldn’t really matter: Is it a good product? This is the question that matter.

I’d challenge EVERYONE to try Omea from JetBrains and then compare it to Google Reader. You’ll have the river of news feature, clipping features, the ability to capture web pages, note taking and annotations, all sorts of features you do NOT get (yet) with Google Reader. Not great for sharing, but the other advantages far outweigh their disadvantages (at least for me). Social bookmarking is fine, but I’d rather have the ability to annotate posts — and I can still share them by e-mail.

Bottom line: When you look at all the advantages of Omea Pro, you won’t want to use any other reader. A bold statement — and I’m willing to stick by it. (Of course, it’s a temporal statement, not taking into account further developments by other readers or yet-to-be-released news readers.)

GO, OMEA, GO!! (See JetBrains for a free download.)

Last comment: No affiliation at all with JetBrains. I don’t know anybody there, I don’t even know where they’re located. But it’s a great product and I’m a delighted user who has tried just about every major alternative that there is.

By: Greg Reinacker

Greg Reinacker — Fri, 23 Feb 2007 20:28:10 +0000

Regarding NewsGator, this does NOT count any of the client applications (FeedDemon, NetNewsWire, Inbox, etc) – the statement in this post to that effect is inforrect. I wrote much more detail on my blog at http://www.rass...e.aspx?post=828.

By: Library clips

Library clips — Fri, 23 Feb 2007 17:16:12 +0000

Feedburner : audience engagement…

As we all know by now Feedburner have released the 1st on their series on their view of the feed market, what I want to focus on is the 3 types of measuring feed statistics.
It was just the other day the I posted on how do we find out our true subscr…

By: Scott

Scott — Fri, 23 Feb 2007 11:32:08 +0000

It’s got to be that Google allows users to put its Reader widget on Google start pages. When you consider the use of Google Reader – and track the adoption parallel to the timeline of the launch of personalized Google Start pages, I don’t think there’s any surprise at all.

The question is, do users of Google Reader really believe they’re using an RSS reader, or do they just think of the widget on their Start pages as a news headline reader? I’d be interested to see what share of Google Reader users also use other RSS readers.

By: whoopee

whoopee — Fri, 23 Feb 2007 05:57:42 +0000

i just use digg or reddit as a meta-feedreader. if something interesting emerges somewhere, its bound to show up there. seems a lot easier than managing 500 subscriptions and hovering over them like and idiot.

By: Somewhat Frank

Somewhat Frank — Fri, 23 Feb 2007 05:22:41 +0000

The Feed Market View From FeedBurner…

FeedBurner released a feed market analysis report yesterday (February 22, 2007) which offers an unprecedented look into the syndication industry. This is the most comprehensive feed report of its kind to date. According to the report, Google, MyYahoo a…

By: PurpleCow

PurpleCow — Fri, 23 Feb 2007 04:22:55 +0000

Been using feedburner for a long time now for 2 sites. I see most popular portals use their service also. but they have some problems with slowness with some of their features,which needs to be improved as they reach higher milestones in terms of usage.

By: Wes

Wes — Fri, 23 Feb 2007 04:21:59 +0000

I also like the fact that Google is always adding new features from time to time. That explains why its leading the pack.

By: Yaron

Yaron — Fri, 23 Feb 2007 04:01:19 +0000

One simple question — Are we days or weeks away from Google announcing they’re acquiring Feedburner?

By: sinha

sinha — Fri, 23 Feb 2007 03:13:25 +0000

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By: sinha

sinha — Fri, 23 Feb 2007 03:12:12 +0000

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By: Kyle

Kyle — Fri, 23 Feb 2007 03:06:45 +0000

Nice. My thoughts echo those of Jason Berberich (comment 16) exactly. I used to use Bloglines a long time ago, but switched over to Google Reader during their first release. I’m amazed at how quickly I can run through items through the combination of “river of news” style reading, and using the J and K shortcut keys. I easily run through about 100-120 news items everyday using GReader. No other product compares, in my opinion, especially when you factor in the convenience of access from anywhere.

My stats from GReader:

“From your 137 subscriptions, over the last 30 days you read 4,138 items, starred 83 items, and shared 0 items.”

Love it.

By: Bob

Bob — Fri, 23 Feb 2007 01:24:26 +0000

I been using feedburner for a while now… felt that it works better with yahoo reader

By: Hasan Jafri

Hasan Jafri — Fri, 23 Feb 2007 00:45:42 +0000

Sorry, data overload: It’s Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner.

By: Hasan Jafri

Hasan Jafri — Fri, 23 Feb 2007 00:42:39 +0000

The Feedburner numbers are way, way overblown. Here’s the explainer.

Steven J. Levitt and Sephen D. Dubner over at their Freakonomics blog (they also wrote the book by the same title) saw a sudden jump in the number of people subscribing to their feed lon Saturday. They had this to say:

“Our hosting service says about 50,000 unique visitors come each day. That’s a lot of people — but when our traffic is analyzed by other companies, the number is considerably less.

The other day, I noticed something strange. The little box in the right-hand margin of this page that lists the number of RSS subscribers, via our FeedBurner feed, had jumped from about 14,000 to 42,000. Surely, I thought, this was an error.

But it wasn’t. According to the FeedBurner blog, the FeedBurner numbers as of last Saturday now include people who subscribe to blogs through Google Reader and Google Personalized Homepage. It may be that some of our subscribers actually subscribe to blog “packages,” and not the Freakonomics blog in particular. Even so, we suddenly have three times more feed traffic than we thought.

So: thanks to FeedBurner, Google, and of course you 28,000 previously uncounted readers. This is the most exciting data revision since the I.R.S.’s discovery that seven million declared dependents were in fact phantom deductions.”

Hmmm…

By: Frank

Frank — Fri, 23 Feb 2007 00:32:53 +0000

I guess I’m not surprised that Google have come out on top. What I am surprised about is how quickly they have done it. And how little they emphasize Google Reader in relation to their other products. Perhaps now we’ll hear some crowing from Google about how Reader is the King of the Hill.

By: BlogReader

BlogReader — Fri, 23 Feb 2007 00:31:37 +0000

All this love of Google Reader made my hiccup today. I’m seeing stuff that I marked as read hours ago. What gives? Oh yeah it is in beta.

By: Bryan Bartow

Bryan Bartow — Thu, 22 Feb 2007 23:57:22 +0000

I don’t think anyone should be surprised that the numbers look the way they do in regards to Google. It should have the lion’s share of the market, because theirs is simply a better product.

By: sc

sc — Thu, 22 Feb 2007 22:46:52 +0000

ahem… almost 285 000

By: tobias

tobias — Thu, 22 Feb 2007 22:36:00 +0000

Ronald, I’m not sure you should be ashamed. I wonder if “Google coming from nowhere” was simply a result of perfect (or lucky) timing. Here’s a theory: RSS (anecdotally) made the leap from early adopters to the wider masses late last year… at the same time as Google started to promote an easy-to-use feedreader. Newbies to RSS turned to their trusted Google to search for a reader, and bam! The charts above don’t lie. I wonder what the stats are for customer-churn on bloglines etc in the last 6 months. My guess is that it would be low. Perhaps the pie of RSS-reading users has grown, and Google was in the right place at the right time to swallow up all the newbies (including you)? The fact that “Bloggers everywhere saw their subscriber numbers jump an average of 53%r” seems to back up that theory? Eitherway – great news for Feedburner!