You can place the list of unread titles above or below the pane where you actually read posts and stories. Once loaded and fired-up, the NewsBlur interface is easy to figure out if you have used any comparable feed service: you get a left-hand-side vertical column showing your feed titles and the unread message count for each, and a larger window on the right with the content for the selected feed. Luckily for us feed-hoarders, the importer pops up a dialog box to let you select your 64 favorite feeds if you are using a free account, and attempts to pre-select the 64 most popular. When you sign up, you can automatically import your existing feed collection from other Web services (Google Reader included) using OAuth, or upload an OPML file from another application. Naturally, the hidden secret in this pricing formula is that the more users who use accounts (free or paid), the better the service’s statistics and recommendation engine become.
Alternatively, you can remove the feed-limit and get a pay-what-you-choose plan. You can sign up with a NewsBlur account for free, if you can live with the limitation of 64 active feeds. Although all of the source code is hosted at GitHub (and under the permissive MIT license), Clay is openly trying to use the service as a funding source, by hosting a NewsBlur service on the domain. NewsBlur has been in development since 2010, the brainchild of developer Samuel Clay. The open source feed reader NewsBlur is ready to make a play for your attention, adding not just link-sharing but multi-user rating and intelligence. The latest change is the removal of social-networking “share this” functionality, as Google Reader gets merged into Google Plus. But while the search giant gets plenty of karma points on the software freedom front, Google Reader’s status as a commercial product means that from time to time, features have to come and go. Google Reader is the undisputed champ among Web-based RSS and Atom feed-readers.
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