Dion Almaer

Bloglines Losing Early Adopters to Rojo, Newsgator, and Google? (IACI, GOOG)

I would be amazed if people are moving to Google Reader as more than a "lets check it out" move. It is pretty unusable for daily RSS reading in my opinion.

That being said, I agree that Bloglines is behind these days, and needs to innovate on the UI side.

I find it hard to justfiy using it as my main news reader, and it sits there as a backup for when I am online away from my computer. I use NewsGator and NetNewsWire as my main tools of choice.

NewsGator has gotten worse since they added the online services. When you change a folder in Outlook it hangs for awhile, which makes outlook unusable. This is particularly bad usability, as you assume a rename of a folder is a quick, local operation, and then you see the app hang? Can't the web service request by made in the background? Haven't we learnt about asynch UI threads by now?

Sounds like is still room in this market for innovation, and even a new player? ;)