FeedBurner and Market Share - Features and Functions always win!

Recently Robert Scoble made public his reader statistics through his FeedBurner subscription via Teja. Although Scobles stats aren't representative of the whole, he can certainly be identified as a proxy for the early adopter market given his "pioneer" status. NewsGators growth in the past 6 months or so has been phenomenal as evidenced by the attached stats. Plus, if you add in the recent acquisition of FeedDemon, it's us against Bloglines. The market speaks - features and functions always ultimately win!

Comments

[Richard MacManus]

Note that those stats are only for Scoble's *linkblog* - which would be *far* less popular than his actual blog. So I don't know that you can take a lot from those stats... I certainly wouldn't go as far as to say "it's us against Bloglines" ;-) Not just yet anyway :-)

[Nicole Simon]

As far as I can see, this is a posting on Robert's Linkblog showing of content of Ed Bott's blog. Not Scoble. It even says so at the top of it - quite hard to miss. Unless one wants to use a famous name to get some publicity.

As I quoted on the Teja blog: I don't care how many features you have - as long as you fail to give me a decent insight how your service works regarding screenshots and manuals WITHOUT having to sign in, I don't know you. (Gosh, every simple shareware app can do it, and you call yourself a site for gathering information?)

[On my different blogs, Bloglines usage is around 30-40% constantly, Newsgator in low single digits.]