Everyone knows that RSS rocks. Why visit your favorite web sites when you can ingest their content into a single application, a la, an RSS newsreader. For me it’s NetNewsWire but I want the option to read my feeds from a web app with the same convenience as reading e-mail with Gmail.

Of course this presents a problem of syncing my feeds with the web-based application. The latest beta of NNW will sync with Newsgator but the latter is subscription ($) based. Two other web-based readers, Bloglines and Google Reader, are free but they can only import/export, not automatically sync.

It’s a mild hassle importing every so often (I’m lazy) but I suspect it’s only a matter of time until Google opens an API to their Reader app, like Google Maps, and every RSS reader in the world will have the means to sync with Google Reader.

Until then, this is yet another example of system incompatibility a mere 26 years into the evolution of computers. Just when you think the industry “gets it” they trip over their feet again.

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