Feedreader has been acquired by a new professional and reliable developer.' However ownership of Feedreader is not disclosed on the organisation's website and it is unclear whether the service is owned by a private individual, a partnership, a corporation, or some other type of entity. In an un-dated announcement published on the Feedreader website it was stated that '.after years of successful development by i-Systems Inc. The installation file is 4.44 MB, which is notably small for a feed reader with such features. Moreover, the program can use keyboard shortcuts, search through one's RSS feeds, and can be run from a USB flash drive. įeedreader has an auto-discovery feature, whose purpose is to find RSS feeds on any web page and subscribe to them in an automated fashion.

The company behind Feedreader says that it was the first personal desktop RSS reader. Recent beta versions use MySQL as database back-end.įeedreader was one of the first desktop feed readers version 1.54 of Feedreader of the application were distributed on April 24, 2001. It has a stripped down, though configurable, three-pane interface similar to NetNewsWire on Mac OS X. Feedreader is a free RSS and Atom aggregator for Windows.

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