Rourke on Technology

Below is a brief roundup of the leading six feed to email services. This is a rapidly changing space; two years ago there were no feed to email services, nine months ago there were over a dozen, and today there are six meaningful services.

I found an interesting Alexa graph comparing web traffic for the top five services — Feedburner isn’t isn’t in this chart because the majority of traffic to Feedburner’s website is related to their feed syndication service. The Alexa chart should be a reasonable indicator of market share for these providers.

Do you want a way to merge or aggregate multiple feeds into one master feed? Do you want to filter a feed or set of feeds and scan for entries that either contain (or don’t contain) a particular item? Then FeedShake is for you. Do you want to make sure you don’t miss any items published to an active feed? Then feedcatch is for you. Do you want to know why the heck either of those things is useful? Then this blog post is for you.