FeedDemon Releases Version 2.5 Update

NewsGator's FeedDemon has recently released an update to its version 2.5 Windows desktop application reader.

FeedDemon now offers better support for offline reading, and an improved Popular Topics report. This allows users to pre-fetch unread items which saves images and linked pages attached to the unread posts. This brings more features to the feed reading experience, making it a more comprehensive function that would be most desirable in a desktop reader. The Popular Topics section allows you to see which topics are being linked to, and commented on, all within the feeds you've subscribed to. It also shows which are the popular topics based on the NewsGator community, which I think is important.

A lot of feed readers, such as My Yahoo's updated version, are moving towards a personalized manner of tailoring itself to your ongoing behavior, but it's good to still have peer recommendations. This enables users to still get a larger sense of what's going on, not get lost in one's own "narrowing of choices" and promotes the discovery of more new topics. In related news, Mobispine offers a less interactive feed reader optimized for mobile use, and Particls recently launched its public beta.