Google Reader Gains »

By Rob Safuto on Feb 23, 2007 in RSS, Social Media, Tools | 2 Comments

Neville Hobson has done an analysis of his RSS feed subscriber stats since Google started reporting statistics on subscribers via Google’s Reader and Home Page services.
He concludes that Google Reader, ” is making its mark as an RSS aggregator.” He sees a larger percentage of subscribers now using Google tools as opposed to other popular [...]

Onfolio and Firefox 2.0 »

By Rob Safuto on Dec 3, 2006 in RSS, Social Media, Tools | 2 Comments

I recently upgraded my Firefox browser to version 2.0. One thing to consider before you upgrade is how the upgrade will affect your add ons.
Most will probably be supported, but I ran into a potentially sticky situation with my desktop RSS feed reader of choice, Onfolio. Onfolio was acquired by Microsoft earlier this year and [...]

Microsoft Acquires Onfolio »

By Rob Safuto on Mar 16, 2006 in Acquisitions, RSS | 1 Comment

In my recent analysis of Microsoft’s situation with social media, I failed to mention a key development that took place last week. Microsoft acquired Onfolio. This is definitely a strong move into RSS and improved desktop organization. I’ve been an Onfolio user for quite a while and I’m very happy with it’s data collection and [...]