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If you've been following this weblog for a while, you will know that I have engaged in an ongoing quest for the perfect RSS feed aggregator.

When Attensa for Outlook 2.0 was released in beta, I thought that's what I wanted: have all my feeds delivered to my email inbox, filter them according to rules I set up and behaviour it learned, and sync the result with my mobile.

It sounded great on paper, but after using it for a few weeks I have decided to go back to Netvibes because:

1. I found out I do not like reading stuff on my mobile phone. Besides, the feeds with longer articles or posts I might want to read on the go only publish short excerpts anyway;
2. I have been using Netvibes alongside Attensa, to aggregate non-blog and non-news content, thus having to check two locations rather than one;
3. I have not found a way to synchronise Attensa for Outlook with Attensa Online (which I cannot even find on their website - do they still do that?) So if I read something, say, at work, I have to delete it again when I get home;
4. The attention monitoring engine that brings to the foreground feeds it notices you are keener to read first did not strike me for being more practical than having an overview of everything that's been updated and manually selecting what to read straight away and what to save for later;
5. Netvibes has a very useful Digg module that lets you configure the number of Diggs a story must have before being displayed.

Oh - sounds like there's a new and improved Google Reader out. I might give it another go then…

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