Sadly for my employer it’s stuff like Feedly that will keep Firefox installed on my machine (albeit IE8 remains my default).
My pal Jas pointed me to Feely today and I thought I’d seen it before but I hadn’t…it just has one of those familiar Web 2.0 style names. Whatever, it’s a super cool add-on for Firefox that I was so interested in that I just spent 30 minutes reorganising, culling and categorizing my Google Reader feeds. Now when I load up Feely I get newspaper style interface with my favourite stuff at the top…different to the river of news I’ve become used to with Reader so I’m going to try it for a few days and see how I fare.
Feedly looks pretty, but if you're an IE user (or a MS employee), you might wanna try this: http://1.11011.net/software/rikreader
Its a ClickOnce deployed WPF app (not an XBAP though) that makes reading feeds easier on the eyes while using the native pervasive Windows RSS platform.
Of course Google Reader wins due to its portability, and I really wish MS would make a competitive solution available, just as it has with WL Calendar. However, feed readers are still not in wide use, and are not particularly profitable
nice try.. as i always say in such situations.