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Blackberry RSS and VIIGO update

I recently dumped VIIGO (http://www.viigo.com) off my blackberry (BB) which came as a shock move to thousands of people (ok, perhaps only me) as I HAD loved the application.

 My issue was that it was getting fatter and fatter (which they can get away with in DesktopLand tm but which irks on the limited space of my BB). My other issues was that each new release brought new "features" which looked like bloated junk to me. As well was the vapoureware audiopodcast bit but, apart from that, there seemed to be more and more ads and an increase in what they called "channels" . All I wanted was a good, lightweight RSS reader. That's all.

 So I deleted it.

 After a bit of research I discovered FreeRange (http://freerange.inc) which seemed exactly what I needed but I did get some comments and tweets about a "lightweight" version of Viigo so, I tried it. But it was still a poor cousin.

 I also was uncomfortable putting my eggs in the viigo basket when I just couldn't see the lightweight client being part of their long term stratgey. Surely if it's not as much of a money spinner as it's 'fatter' sibling then it will be internally despised and will simply get the rough end when it comes to development?

 What is the risk you ask? Well it's faff to get your feeds set up and I don't want to go through that too often.

 So, I'm sticking with lightweight Freerange - it's fast and has great keyboard shortcuts. Basically exactly what I want. The webside interface is as naff as Viigo's but there we go.

 What they both need is a really zingy interface for discovering feeds...