I’ve mentioned repeatedly how Feeddemon is by far my favorite RSS reader across any platform. Apparently I’m not alone in feeling that way – today, Newsgator, the popular RSS tool for folks using Outlook on PCs, announced that they’ve acquired Bradsoft and will continue developing both Feeddemon and Topstyle (a superb PC-based CSS/XHTML editor). I own both these tools. I’m happy for Bradsoft – the guy is a class act and he makes excellent products. He was also the author of Homesite, which was one of the first decent PC-based HTML authoring tools back in the day, still available (barely!) from Macromedia. I’m also bummed though. While I am getting a 2 year paid subscription to Newsgator out of their purchase of Bradsoft, and it will allow Feeddemon a method of providing feed synching across platforms (read a feed at work, when I look at it at home it shows as already read), I had already basically solved this problem for myself via Powerfolder, which I mentioned a couple of weeks ago. I’ll keep my fingers crossed that Feeddemon and Topstyle don’t suffer the same fate that Homesite did, and that Feeddemon continues to innovate under its new corporate parent. Meanwhile it’s time to start paying attention to projects like RSS Owl, or maybe switch back to my old favorite on the mac, netnewswire, which has recently moved to version 2.0.