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FeedDemon - yeah, to get your $25 worth it helps to OPML and how to transform XML, but that's what I like about it.

Straw - for when I'm in the Gnome .

BlogLines - web-native but with an API to die for.

AmphetaDesk - around for a while, great if you like shooting your foot of in Perl.

NewsGator - for Outlook - still, you can tweak it to feed event-extended RSS into your task calendar.

rss2Email - for when my Knoppix install has nothing better to do.

SharpReader - not as good as FeedDemon, but less expensive. There are a few others, the WikiPedia has a good handle on that - point is, how is the IBM tool different than all of the above? Are they not going to use RSS or ATOM feeds?

I am sure it will end up not having corner alerts just like every other feed reader in existance. On my windows boxes I used to use this app called SharpReader it was a okay app, but the one feature that it had that I love was corner popups. Every time a new article came in a little box came up telling you the feed title and article title. You could then decide if you wanted to read it, if you did you could click on the title and it would bring up the article. I now find my self in linux more than ever and I have to use straw. The only thing straw does is give me a little sys-tray icon it doesnt tell me the name at all so I have to bring it up click on the bolded feed and then make a judgement call. Thunderbird doesnt have this feature also, infact thunderbird is even worse it doesnt even give you a sys-tray icon! (bug: 261841). So, if akregator has corner popups I will love it forever... but if it doesnt I continue using straw :(

I think what's really made blogs (and now other outlets) take off is the use of RSS/ATOM feeds and RSS/ATOM readers. There's Straw for Linux, SharpReader for Windows, and even online aggregators like Bloglines for those who are always on the run.

It's easy to know when someone has updated without having to manually check every site. Reading content is also a breeze, by virtue of having a unified interface. Personally, a large number of my regular readers access my weblog through an RSS interface. And with big outlets like Yahoo News and BBC providing RSS feeds, it's not much more effort to simply add a personal blog to your daily reading list.

Such as Sharpreader and RSSBandit. See Wikipedia's News aggregator entry for a lot of good ones.

try a search.
http://www.sharpreader.net/
Can't imagine what else it might be.

My Linux box is mostly there to sneer at, so I haven't gotten around to setting up anything over there yet.

For Windows I highly recommend SharpReader. It's freeware (though not open source) and it works great, easy to use, etc. You can also set it to give you little notifications on new items. Check it out.

For Windows XP, Sharpreader is a good free aggregator. It can get slow if you have hundreds of feeds.

SharpReader