Sporkmonger

If I have my way, desktop feed readers will just turn out to be a sort of thin-client for interfacing with a web-based feed reading proxy of sorts, which would itself, be a normal web-based feed reader. All of the majorly nifty aggregation features such as filtering and what-have-you would reside within the web-based proxy, while the user gets to choose how they actually interface with that information. They could use the web-based aggregator as their actual client, or they could point NNW at the web-based aggregator’s republished feeds (in your choice of Atom, RSS, or heck, !okay/news, if you prefer). You get all the advantages of the desktop client, plus all of the advantages of the web-based client all at once. And with OPML/XOXO, it’s not even difficult to set up. Just a matter of 30 seconds worth of importing.

In case you were wondering about my cryptic and nonsensical .plan thing over there.

For the record, I think NewsGator is, by far, the best-positioned RSS company around and I’m curious what they’ll do with that positioning.