Bloglines Losing Market Share
Blogging June 3rd, 2006
(Updated)
Bloglines is still the market leader amongst web-based feed-readers, but it’s clearly losing market share. Half a year ago almost all my Feedburner subscribers used Bloglines – now it’s back to 28%.
(The chart was produced using Zoho Sheet, here’s the original)
Update (7/4): See feed stats by Neville Hobson and Alex Barnett.
Tags: bloglines, feedreader, feedreaders, feedburner, zoho, zohosheet, zoliblog
Zoli Erdos
What’s most interesting to me about this is that there is no leading application. For such a common technology, this seems very odd. The other bucket is so large compared to Bloglines, only at 28%. Not sure what this has to say about Web 2.0 technology arms races, but there is something in there.
The leading application is still Bloglines, but it’s lead is shrinking. The “other”bucket is made up of lots of onesies and twosies.
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