FeedGhost

theUg: #feedghost Interesting how it differs from Opera Mail. I use the latter, and it incorporates e-mail client and feed reader all from within my browser. It has quick find-as-you-type, and you can narrow things down from side panel. Moreover, Opera uses "views", instead of "folders", so same messages can be categorized within multiple views, so same feed could be filtered as Shopping > NewEgg.com by, say, feed name or e-mail subject, and as Brands > Samsung by keyword so that all feeds and e-mails that would mention Samsung in it would show in that view if you are looking for specific promotions.

This system while pretty powerful and space efficient (there's always only one copy of the message exist, just shown via multiple ways) compared to rigid folder directory system, could be somewhat harder to understand even if it supports drag-and-drop or right-click > "show in the view" or "show in the view and add rule" etc.

So I wonder how FeedGhost organizes messages and feeds. Mar 23, 10

Whipdaddy: #feedghost How does this stack up against aiderss.com ? Aug 10, 07

dialupinternetuser: #feedghost I like the iGoogle/Google Reader/Google Homepage. I'd give this a try, but I normally don't have internet on my personal computer, and have to use my family one. There is a cool add-on button for Firefox that open your iGoogle Hompage in a sidebar. I use that a lot. Jul 31, 07

Brian H. Madsen: #feedghost I was told about this RSS reader by a friend and figured it to be yet just another stock standard reader. But after a few hours of use I was converted and place my order for the paid service. It is without a doubt, the king of RSS readers...feature-rich, stable and above all very user friendly! I don't go anywhere without my FeedGhost...a must have for all RSS geeks! Jul 31, 07

stusmith: #feedghost Thanks for the review Erik! And before I reply further, a disclaimer to anyone else reading: I'm one of the authors of FeedGhost.

I think you're absolutely right that for a "casual" RSS user, free tools such as (say) Google Reader are a better bet. We're aiming this product at people who read a lot of feeds, and hence a lot of articles per day. An analogy might be this: for casual email, GMail works fine. For business/heavy email use, Outlook might be a better choice. I subscribe to about 200 feeds, which gives me (coincidentally) about 200 articles to look at per day. Using FeedGhost, I can get through them in about half an hour to an hour. I find prioritizing my reading really helps here, a feature (I believe) doesn't exist in Google Reader.

Finally, a couple of specific points:

• "Can't easily access previously-read items" - these are accessed by expanding the articles list. Read items appear in normal (non-bold) type. Alternatively, the search facility displays results from both read and unread items.
• "Links don't open in external browser by default" - agreed, not by default, but there is an option to control this behaviour.

Jul 30, 07

Erik: #feedghost I gave this software a try after it was added to ProductWiki. Keep in mind, I'm not a heavy RSS user, but I do have several feeds that I monitor from NetVibes and Google Reader. At first, I would have to say that I was a bit underwhelmed by the experience, but once I tried out the "Outlook-style" reading, I found this be a better experience for me, and I warmed up to the product after that. I'm curious to hear what power RSS readers have to say about FeedGhost. Jul 29, 07