RSS Aggregators

In the wake of Ask's acquisition of Bloglines, I am interested in who has the market share for RSS aggregators. 

Here's a graph of my readers.  I would love to know if this is typical of others out there.

You can click on the graph and enlarge it to read the text in the boxes.

By the way, these stats are from my Feedburner feed.  If you like stats, you should use Feedburner.

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[Alternative Energy Blog]

The breakdown of the feedburner stats for the alternative energy blog are as follows:

Bloglines - 43.7%
My Yahoo - 12.6%
NetNewsWire - 6.7%
NewsGator Online - 5.5%
Sage - 3.9%
Thunderbird - 3.1%
Other Readers - 24.4%

The thing that confuses me about feedburner stats is that for example depite having dozens of MyYahoo subscribers they generate only one hit whereas some other news readers with only a few subscribers generate upwards of a hundred hits.

It must also be recognised that subscribers do not necessarily equate to readers. On bloglines I subscribe to approximately one hundred feeds but only have the time to read a fraction of them.

Bloglines as one of the most popular newsreaders serves a function in that it is possible to compare subscriber numbers for different blogs.

So for example AVC (231) has less than a fortieth of the Bloglines subscribers of Engadget (9,819) but almost 2.5 times the subscribers of BloggingBaby (101).

James
Alternative Energy Blog

[Alternative Energy Blog]

Bloglines tendency of subscriber numbers to jump up and down on a daily basis (between a lower and higher figure) should also be noted. Now I look again AVC has a subscriber number of 262.

Anyone got any idea why this happens?

[Chevsky]

Not a stat, but I thought you'd like this article since you've talked about it so much....re RSS advertising.

[Michael Parekh]

Interesting that over half of the users use web-based newsreaders (bloglines and Yahoo), whereas the rest (other than the other category, which we don't know much about), are desktop client based services.

I know web-based is important to me since I use multiple desktops and laptops, and keeping data synced from desktop clients is tough. Curious how other feel on this issue.

[Alternative Energy Blog]

Michael,

That's exactly the reason I use a web based reader.

James
Alternative Energy Blog

[Bill A]

I've been using Pluck, which isn't called out on the chart. They were at DEMO last month, and their latest release has some great features for both synchronizing feeds across machines and for sharing feeds with other people. They also have web access so you can access your feeds from any browser on any machine.

They get that many of us have a laptop plus desktops both at home and at work. They also get that we want to share different feeds among different personal and business networks.

Because they were initially an IE plug-in, they're a little behind the Firefox wave. The web access helps address that, although a full FF version would be nice.

As a disclaimer, I know the founders and have done some work for them in the past. Regardless, I like their product and think it's one more interesting approach.

[Helmar]

I am using both Opera's built-in newsreader and a plugin to my Becky! (www.rimarts.co.jp - crappy website, brilliant software) email client. Although newsfeeds are essentially links to website and therefore more appropriate in the browser, I tend more and more towards the feeds arriving in the email client, as only a fraction of feed items actually lead to click-throughs.

[Dima]

I am using ExtraLabs RSS Aggregator - easy RSS reader, multifuctional news aggregator, and blog client. This program will let you to create a new RSS feed fast and easy. It also allows you to form a new feed from severla existing feeds, edit it and upload to a web server via ftp.
It's cool! http://www.extralabs.com/

[abc]

www.arklinux.org/backend/arklinuxrss2.rss