digg_url = 'http://digg.com/software/Syndication_Wars_2007_Atom_s_Time_is_Nigh_With_Google_on_its_Side'; digg_bgcolor = '#ffffff'; digg_skin = 'compact'; Tim Bray announced today on his blog that the Atom Publishing Protocol, a way to create and update Web resources, Continue reading »

I resisted the headline 'Desktop RSS Readers Are Dead', but our latest poll of which methods people use to read RSS feeds is showing a clear trend - more people Continue reading »

Following on from the New York Times Reader last year, made with Microsoft's rich presentation technology WPF (Windows Presentation Foundation), three more big media companies have released Web/desktop News Readers Continue reading »

Feedburner has released an interesting new report on web-based RSS Readers, prompted by the recent introduction of Google Reader into its stats (incidentally, for some reason R/WW only increased by Continue reading »

Hitwise has released data that suggests Bloglines is still the clear leader in the RSS Reader stakes, with 3 times more US visits than its nearest web-based competitor Rojo. I Continue reading »

James Corbett has an interesting post speculating that Google Reader might become a 'read/write' app over the course of 2007. Says James: "The addition of support for tagging and link

The Pluck RSS Reader is shutting down, according to a message posted on the Pluck website: "All versions of Pluck's RSS readers for Internet Explorer, FireFox and Pluck's web

Hot on the heels of the well-received Google Reader re-design, I received a tip tonight (thanks Mike Rundle) that Bloglines has also done a slight re-design. On their blog they

Google Reader, Google's web-based RSS Aggregator, has had a re-design and I am impressed. It now has a look n' feel very much like Gmail, which I believe is a

This post was largely written by Ryan Stewart, a guest blogger on Read/WriteWeb. I've added my own Best of Breed picks for each category. Feed readers can be divided up