I’ve been occasionally ranting about the moribund state of development of web-based RSS readers for about six months now. In one of my first posts on the subject I theorized that FeedLounge might be the antidote. This Monday we will all get a chance to find out. From the looks of things it might combine the best of desktop feed reading features with the portability and ease of the web-based aggregator. As someone who tracks hundreds of blogs on a regular basis, and another few hundred intermittently, I need very strong features in tagging, marking, and scanning. At this point, Bloglines remains my top choice despite some vocal critics. It hasn’t failed me yet…

FeedDemon, the cream of the crop of desktop readers, does all of these things. But dealing with that many feeds, the synchronization features just aren’t strong (or fast) enough. That might change with FeedDemon 2.0, which is almost here as well. Let’s hope this is a sign of richer times ahead.

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