I have been a long time fan of Bloglines.com, but in recent weeks it had it’s fair share of problems and bugs. I am usually very tolerant with such hiccups, but I hate it when companies don’t react to problems.

Bloglines was pretty ignorant, lazy or simply stupid not to respond to many postings and requests in the forum. Since many people like me rely on their RSS Feed Reader to manage the daily information overkill for work - this was no longer tolerable.

I am not a big fan of using Google for everything - and the Google Reader is pretty ugly compared to Bloglines. But Google simply ‘works’ - although I can assure you that Google is also a company that hardly responds to User requests. It’s forums are also filled with screaming users - often begging for attention or help when their GMail accounts have problems or data is lost with some other Google application.

Overall I am less and less a fan of web based solutions. When Google Reader or GMail load in my Firefox they use more memory than my good old Outlook. Web applications often load slower than their desktop counterparts as well. And making backup is often impossible.