CNet has reviewed some of the most populair RSS readers: Bloglines, Rojo, Google Reader, FeedDemon and Newsgator Inbox 2.6 for Outlook. Like Steve writes, the most useful part of the review is a matrix that compares each on their blogging, mobile and language capabilities. Overall winner is Newsgator’s FeedDemon, Bloglines ends second.

Tomorrow the creators of Touchstone will announce a new initiative to implement a “Attention Profiling Mark-up Language” or APML. This new standard should allow users to export and use their own personal Attention Profile in much the same way that OPML allows them to export their reading lists from Feed Readers. The idea is to boil down all forms of Attention Data – including Browser History, OPML, Attention.XML, Email etc – to a portable file format containing a description of ranked user interests. You might think this is a bit similar to the AttentionTrust service, but APML does not propose …read more

News Snacks (from SpotBack) organizes all your feeds in one place. We’ve seen more of these feedreaders/river of news stuff, but this one looks better. You can create your own page of favorite news, just add feeds manually, import them from OPML, or use sources from Spotback Personal News. You can choose from the pre-compiled Tasty Snacks: Web2.0, Breaking News, Gadgets, Tech News, Geek Talk.
You can also use multiple layouts, or grab other users’ setup for your homepage. Just try it out (via feedfiles.com).

The last months we’ve seen myFeedz, Touchstone and Attensa trying to solve Information Overload. The keyword with these services is Attention and next in line is Wizag. Wizag is an online feedreader that incorporates attention data and semantic analysis in regards to both your feeds and the larger community of Wizag users (Digg stylee). Like Techcrunch writes: “It recommends topics, visualized points of intersection between topics and new feeds based on your interaction with the subscriptions you already have. The implementation is a little slow and it’s nothing pretty to look at, but the technology is interesting… You can tag, …read more

The Humanized Reader is a “River of News”-style RSS aggregator that looks like a blog. Great idea and it sure looks good! Like Steve Rubel writes: It’s intuitive.

Yahoo! Research seems to have launched an experimental topic clustered RSS reader that presents a collection of feeds in relevant groups similar to the way Google News groups stories. Bad news is the reader needs the Yahoo Widget Engine?!? Why is that? I don’t want to install any stuff, I want it anyplace anytime, online! Too bad…
Thanks to Steve for the link!

Betanews.com is reporting that The New York Times is testing a new site which is called “My Times”. This service should be some sort of personal news page from a variety of RSS feeds.
My Times users can add feeds from the New York Times itself, as well as a number of third party blogs and Web sites. It’s not clear if the site will support the addition of any RSS feed, or only those chosen by the Times. The company did not say when the new service would launch, but is inviting readers to be notified when it’s ready.

Today I got an invitation to the private beta for myFeedz.com. myFeedz should be a social newspaper and find what’s important from the sea of information out there and shows you what you need to read. It learns from what you like and helps you keep up with your interests.
I signed up and had the choice to import an OPML file or give a comma separated list of keywords in which I’m interested. Because I couldn’t find a recent OPML file of my feeds I entered some keywords like: RSS, feeds, blogs, whisky and beer. And to my surprise …read more

Read/WriteWeb has a good comparison of some webbased and desktop RSS readers, with Best of Breed picks for each category. Be sure to also check out the comments, which are full of info about other interesting feedreaders.

Just found another feedreader which may be interesting: feeds.reddit.com. Reddit is a social service for what’s new and popular on the web (as you might know). Now they are testing this new online feedreader that keeps track of what you’ve read and haven’t read. Just like on reddit, you can vote on items you like. This will create a list of the most popular items but it will also train a recommendations system to try to find other items and other feeds that you’ll probably like as well (attention).
The guy who has build the site is Aaron Swartz, he is …read more